If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

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.

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.

If you took a cracked pot and you cracked that cracked pot, you'd be approaching the level of cracked pottery we are talking about here.

You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—to any of you without your permission.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.

Everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. This story is part of everyone's life.

I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe

I have no personal beef with Brandi Chastain. There's nothing personal.

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years,” I said.

One drop of the Lord's mercy is better than an ocean of the world's comfort.

For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator.