I think it's fair to say there's some significant portion of the community that doesn't feel they can take the Charlotte police at their word.

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.

Lord I thank you for the gift of life.

The animals haven't split apart into what they think and what they feel. They are whole and trust in their instincts.

I stubbed my toe just as someone dropped a book into the inside drop box. As I yelped and howled in pain, a child on the other side said, 'Mommy, I think we hurt the book!

There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

I would so like to be Lenny Kravitz.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!