Now that we all agree contraception is a bad idea, let's take a harder look at electricity and soap.

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

Other countries care for their mentally ill. Making them debate on TV is just cruel.

The baby Jesus was the last homeless person the Republicans liked.

Call me a dreamer, but I think it would be great if getting medical attention were as easy as getting a gun.

It would be nice to spend billions on schools and roads, but right now that money is desperately needed for political ads.

Maybe this is crazy, but I think the right to own a gun is trumped by the right not to be shot by one.

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

The only possible reason the Republicans have declared a war on women is they must think women have oil.

If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.

I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so much to let go?

You haven't lived until you died in New York.

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others?

Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march.

If you can't tie good knots, tie plenty of them

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

I went to boarding school and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life.

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.