Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.

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.

I'm from the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" school of screenwriting. I just like to preserve what works and ignore what doesn't work.

Gratefulness is that fullness of life for which we are all thirsting.

The freedom of women was achieved by two things: One, the Pill. Two... by labour-saving devices like the washing machine. By science, not feminism.

I can always tell when a girl comes from a good family because she's what's known as not at all attracted to me.

My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

Love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Now is the dwelling place of God himself.

Two fish in a tank, one says to the other - you drive I'll man the guns.