My grandfather always said a sudden shiver meant someone had just stepped on the spot where your grave would be.

Writing is the place where I can be as bold and compassionate and wise as I choose.

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

I think of myself as a highly sexual creature.

People who connect and build fluid relationships are trust agents.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? I don't.

The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. Wishing you a great journey.

The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.