So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.

What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.

Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

It's a big world, and I really like it.

Character is that sum total of moments we can't explain.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

Without ‘Gnan’ (True Knowledge of the Self), desire(s) will not go away.

There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.

The most underestimated risk for a politician is overexposure.

I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.

I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump.

Our values and way of life will prevail - terrorism will not.

There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency.

I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.