Like one of [Donald] Trump's sons said this is a huge step down for him to run for president. Like he's not doing it - let's just be clear.

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.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Le bonheur, c'est continuer à désirer ce que l'on a déjà.

Shadows of doubt will always fall behind you when you keep your face towards the sunshine. Believe in God

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

You will never find true love until you first learn to love Allah

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

I want it to sound like an orange.

Tests of love always end badly.