I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.

This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

Film really is a collaborative art.

Valuing a writer only for their diversity, but not their humanity or talent – that’s tokenism.

The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.

It is quite unfortunate that some people hate their lives so much that they have to talk down on others in order to feel good about themselves.

A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience.

That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.

This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. It is only found in men of sound sense and understanding.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

When i was 12 all of my friends had girlfriends and i didn't, i felt lonely so i asked my mom to date me.