You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle.

Instead of bailing out Wall Street for the fourth time.. let's bail out the students.

Pay attention America. Third party might not win it this year, but we could be seeing the shift away from a two party system unfolding.

It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.

We cannot simultaneously fight terrorism, we and our allies, while with the other hand we fund terrorism, arm terrorism and train terrorism.

Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

The corporate-powered parties are not gonna do it for us, not the greater or the lesser evil. We have to do it for ourselves. And the minute we stand up and stand together, we are unstoppable.

I think that equality needs to be broadened to include equal access to comprehensive healthcare, equal access to jobs, and equal rights in the workplace.

There is no such thing as a survivable or local nuclear war.

I think it would be a disaster if Donald Trump is elected. It will also be a disaster if Hillary Clinton is elected.

In this country, we not only have a right to vote, we have a right to know who we can vote for.

Literature is the power of fiction itself: not making a claim about what the world is, but about the imagination of a possible world.

And this was to save rats, right? Or mice? You spent all this money to save mice the problem of developing tumors?

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

I still believe there is a need to open up search and it will come eventually. It is very important to challenge the current models.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

The only time I went out was to go to bars at night and all the pictures were taken with a flash because there was no light at all. However now I'm very interested in light.

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.

How do you achieve excellence?...Stop doing non-excellent stuff!