Russian government attacked our election.

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.

Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.

You aren't ugly, my dear. Do not listen to anyone who would say so, even yourself.

If you don’t write your memoirs down then time will swallow them up, leaving no leftovers.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

If you laugh at it, you can deal with it.

One day, you will say it to me again. You will be sober. And you will mean it.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

We are going to make mistakes, but none of us can become an expert in family history work without first being a novice.