Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

You have to let the balloon go if you want to see it fly.

A change of work is a good rest for the mind if you're constantly focused on writing. I like to work with timber and be creative on that side sometimes as well.

A million faces at my feet but all I see are dark eyes.

It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.

People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.

I'd like to play the voice of the Iron in the Monopoly movie.

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

I am the man of the century. No one will ever forget me.

Life's aspirations come in the guise of children.

I believe in eating all the right kinds of foods, and I don't believe in a totally nonfat diet.