Personally, I'd be really glad to have a national conversation about whether to outlaw most forms of birth control. For once, the kids and their grandparents would find themselves on the same side.

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

A huge number of jobs that are filled are never advertised to the public, or if they are, they’re filled by people who have a connection to the employer.

Anything that elicits an immediate nod of recognition has only reconfirmed a prejudice.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered.

Am I an intellectual? I don't think so. Less than people sometimes think, I have to say. But more than some others think.

Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining?

I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it….

Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!

All attention is introspection.