A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Futurology always ends up telling you more about your own time than about the future.

At some point, human intelligence became collective and cumulative in a way that happened to no other animal.

The fantasies of dying could be no stranger than the fantasies of living. Survival is perhaps the strangest fantasy of them all.

The only unavailable choice was whether or not to have Parkinson's. Everything else was up to me.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

You suffer the blow, but you capitalize on the opportunity left in its wake.

Be happy while you are looking for happiness because our purpose of life is to be happy.

I completely identify as female, believe it or not.

He [John McCain] hit me - he's not a war hero.

The last Christian died on a cross.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

You will always find a few people in any area that would like things done completely their way.

Gold and iron are good To buy iron and gold.

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission

I feel like D.C. is one of the places in America that really holds on to history. The monuments inspire me, especially at night.

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.