I don't want to insert myself into the story. I just want to give a useful analysis of it to help people come to their own conclusions.

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.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

Whilst power, superimposed, always needs the help of the police and the military, power generated from within should have little or no use of them.

Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

There is the risk you cannot afford to take, and there is the risk you cannot afford not to take.

All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past.

I guess the only thing to do now is meet his parents. I'm sure they're decent people. I mean they gotta be if they named their son Gaylord Focker.

All I know since yesterday is everything has changed.

Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good results.