I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in.

I think in many ways narrow minded-attitudes lead to extreme thinking.

I like the girls who are honest, because honesty is important.

It’s mentally exhausting, feeling bad about something you can do nothing about.

In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.

What I appreciate is acknowledging to the audience that I think they have brains.

The government can't make people love me, but it can keep them from lynching me.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

Baz. "Have you ever done this before?" Simon. "Yes. No." "Yes or no?" "Yes. Not like this." Baz. "Not with a boy?" Simon. "Not when I really wanted it.

An audience sabotages my freedom, devastates my innocence, corrupts my integrity, inhibits my great joy - and of course gives me further to fall.