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.

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 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.

The substantive difference between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is not really that great.

If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

People always called the Cure gloomy, but listening to the Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way.

I admire people with gentle manners who treat other people as human beings.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

I was aborted and did not die.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows.

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.