You see a lot of fear among Republicans. Oh, man, this guy [Donald Trump] has a lot of vulnerabilities and weaknesses that's not been tested at all yet.

If you want to defend torture, well then go ahead. But please spare me any sermons about the law ever again.

We're in an historic drought, and that demands unprecedented action.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

Who says meritocracy says oligarchy.

California became the last state in the west to regulate groundwater usage. The state's first-ever mandatory water restrictions soon followed.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

Donald Trump is not going anywhere. And we see as calculated as these are, he has a knack for telling a certain segment of a base what they want.

Climate change is the biggest governing challenge we face. It's the biggest governing challenge I think we've ever faced.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn't mean they are right, that doesn't mean there is isn't a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Wisdom allows you to decide how best to apply yourself to get the most return on your time and energy invested.

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

No" works just fine as a complete sentence. You don't have to explain yourself.I said no, then stopped talking.

Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

Jennifer Morrison is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, in a foreign country.

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

Reasoning with a drunkard is like Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.