As Donald Trump's fortunes continue to slide, he's increasingly dragging the fortunes of senate republican's weapon.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

[God] deposits a dream of what we can be for Him, a dream that acts as our internal honing device.

History is full of paths and the most useful, the most rational paths for humanity is mostly empty!

No achieving without believing

You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?

If I don't get at least one e-mail every ten minutes, I feel unloved. Even junk mail makes me feel seen. Sad, I know. Sigh.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.

It's not the fall that kills you; it's the sudden stop at the end.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.