If Donald Trump wins, it's a national emergency.

Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference. That's insane. That's completely insane.

People have a tremendous range of options of how they can behave. There's so much in people.

Donald Trump has this ability to reach out and touch the beast inside so many people.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of guns going off, you know, guns held by white men acting as vigilantes, cops who feel more free to open fire against African Americans.

If someone's pointing a gun at you, you get a surge of adrenaline, but it would be a lot better if they weren't pointing the gun at you in the first place.

If Trump wins, the only thing blocking complete implementation of the programs of Trump, Paul Ryan, the Koch brothers, etc., is the Senate filibuster by the Democrats.

Hillary Clinton isn't that different from Obama in terms of policy.

In fact, as far as one can tell, Obama seems to have killed more civilians during his first year than Bush did in his first year, and maybe even than Bush killed in his final year.

This is a national emergency, if Donald Trump wins.

One of the priorities of a Trump administration will be to immediately start narrowing the legal space that activists have to mobilize.

At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]

There's no love as real as that of a girl and her best friend.

It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything – anything – but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.'

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

There is some art that says the same thing to everybody. WE need something like that. What that is, I don't know. But virtual reality may be the key to it.

The miracle is that each of us can ultimately be invited to places we have only dreamed about and heard about.

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface.

I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.