Islam does not preach hatred and violence and destruction.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.

And now the sequence of events in no particular order.

[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.

Never do nothing you wouldnt want printed on the front page of The New York Times.

I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

Dolly Parton's done 'Stairway to Heaven.' Anything's possible.

Give yourself room to make mistakes because you're human. We've got to make mistakes, and allow ourselves to make those mistakes.

The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences.

What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."