The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

This form of love is like the painof childbirth: so intenseit's hard to remember afterwards,

All I want out of life is that when I walk down the street folks will say "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived."

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

The rest of my life (as a 39 year old) I want to reflect on what life is.

Here is the paradox of Christian living. We must give up control of self to gain self control.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Manic depressives have all the luck; they soar between crashes. The best us regular depressives can do is battle our way up to normal every now and then.