People are people, and grief that is limited to those within a specific political boundary denies the humanity of others.

Toxic masculinity hurts men, but there’s a big difference between women dealing with the constant threat of being raped, beaten, and killed by the men in their lives, and men not being able to cry.

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

Our goal should be not to redefine masculinity, but to abolish it.

The world does not need white people to civilize others. The real White People's Burden is to civilize ourselves.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold?

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

If I could spend more months out of the year employed than unemployed, that would be nice.

Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either half right.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!

A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.