A good chaos theory means you have a disciplined strategy behind the scenes of how you're going to roll out policy. And then you do it in a way that inflicts chaos on the press and your opponents.

I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign .

She [Hillary Clinton] had the courage to stand up.

If providing a platform for white supremacists makes me a brilliant tactician I am glad to have laws.

I would rather lose than win the way you guys [Republicans] did.

The first time I met Elizabeth Edwards, she greeted me at the door of her home juggling a yogurt in one hand and a Diet Coke in the other.

There is never only one, of anyone

I think it's really hard to be joyful. I work hard at it. I always feel like it's a choice. You can be joyful or you can be depressed, and there just doesn't seem to be any future in depression.

I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly and angrily.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.

Poetry and painting are done in the same way you make love; it's an exchange of blood, a total embrace - without caution, without any thought of protecting yourself.

We just need the government to be that greenhouse that permits our faith to grow.

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.