First they gerrymander us into one-party fiefs. Then they tell us they only care about the swing districts. Then they complain about voter apathy.

My all-time favorite program in my entire life was 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Illegal immigration can never be completely stopped, no matter how high the wall or how many patrol agents you have watching it.

Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.

My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

Unfortunately, he was about as deep as a melted ice cube.

I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.

But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead.

I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.

Those big-shot writers ... could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

Technology at present is covert philosophy; the point is to make it overtly philosophical.

Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.