I'm a sarcastic person. I learn through humor.

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.

We stand at the onset of a great age of adventure—and always shall, so long as we keep doing science.

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

For the first time in 150 years, the USDA reported there were more farms in America, not fewer. That has to make you happy.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

I was like, 'What's Margiela?' back then.

Anarchism is "stateless socialism."

You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.

And as far as the Disney Concert hall is concerned, it is a wonderful modern structure and I am extremely honored that I had this opportunity to have a concert here.

A real man's weapon is his mind.