There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.

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.

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

I think there should be holy war against yoga classes.

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.

Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?