Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.

Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.

I don't go in for ancient wisdomI don't believe just 'cos ideas are tenacious it means they're worthy

I have to tell you that June Cleaver had a job in 'The New Leave It to Beaver.' She did. Sure, she was a council woman. She went to work. She wasn't a sit-at-home grandma. She went out, got a job.

I don't know Putin. He said nice things about me. If we got along well, that would be good. If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

I would love when that day comes so I can prove everyone wrong, but in the same time prove to myself I can be the best I can be.

I thought: Just one step. One step at a time. You don’t have to do them all at once.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

I have to find work wherever it might be hiding.