I don't think about people watching me on TV. I think it would stress me out.

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.

The world is God's salvation.

...then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.

You will not live the life of royalty, if you don't understand the meaning of loyalty.

The mirror's light sparks in the eyes, And horrified, my lids drawn tight, I step back to that realm of nightWhere not a single exit lies...(Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...")

Most of society's decision making for young people happens without young people, and that could not happen without adultcentrism.

I just wanted my daughter to grow up, get married, have children and get divorced like everyone else.

War is science of destruction.

You have a lot of young people who still feel somewhat marginalized, even if they do vote for Hillary Clinton.

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.