I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark-infested ocean of emotions. And, if you’ll forgive the dramatic metaphor, I was a lousy swimmer.

No matter where you go or what you do to distract yourself, reality catches up with you eventually

…reality catches up with you eventually.

Love is rare and hard to find and takes years upon years to develop. Teenagers don't fall in love.

p.s.: I know you're rolling your eyes right now, but I don't care. Honestly, it's always kind of been a turn on.

Victims blame, managers maintain, and leaders change.

An eleven-year-old girl is many things, but she is not stupid.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

Climate change: I say the debate is over. We know the science, we see the threat and we know that the time for action is now

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is simultaneous in idea.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

Piensa el sentimiento, siente el pensamiento." (roughly translated, "Think about the emotional and feel the intellectual")

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

You give the money where you want it.