The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.

This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

Film really is a collaborative art.

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

People Expect Something New From Me All The Time.And That's Good It Keeps Me On The Edge

We did have three go to the YMCA.

If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective.

We would always be under The Pentagon's protective umbrella

Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

My tears cure cancer too, it's just that I laugh at cancer patients.