I just can't believe it's always somebody else's fault. Sometimes you just have to take a look in the mirror and reflect on what went wrong.

My children are 12, 12, 8, and 7, which is bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, bad idea, for mom going inside.

I went out on my own, years ago, to try to create some additional choices in a parallel universe.

Donald Trump just has always elevated women to the highest echelons.

I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.

Do you think I ran a campaign where white supremacists had a platform? Are you gonna look me in the face and tell me that?

We know there are lots of leaks everywhere. There's nothing we can do about that, except not leak ourselves.

I want to talk about things that are quantifiable, not a bunch of metro riders and crowd sizes.

Usually based on an economic agenda, white working-class voters don't buy into this whole biology-chemistry-abortion-gender agenda as much as they want more take-home pay. They want affordability.

When I see Twitter feeds, when I see words that are people are using to describe Donald Trump, it is incredibly disrespectful to the office.

Hold us accountable. There's no accountability in Washington. Drain the swamp.

I love my own kind—womankind.

Between roars the lion purrs.

I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

Everything that I make I use.

I grew up on Lake Michigan during the PCB explosion, and I remember seeing the sick, dead fish with tumors, the weird deformed seagulls, the scum and the filth floating. We couldn't go swimming.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic objective.