Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

The United States is a rogue state violating international law in many, many ways that California wouldn't have to if it seceded and became a nation.

Activism has always been the driving force for change.

I think almost everything important that's ever happened was unimaginable shortly before it happened. Good things and bad things: ending slavery, ending child labor, women voting, etc.

The Pentagon is supposed to be under civilian control and it ought to be up to the people of the United States, not the profiteers.

No other nation killed people the way the United States did to end slavery.

California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.

The United States has been becoming worse year after year after year for decades, and it's guaranteed to continue down that path if we don't change something.

Climate change is so unimaginable that most Americans deny it's happening.

I think the election of Donald Trump, if you want to call it an election, was unimaginable to most people, which is part of how it happened.

Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms,

The holiest of all holidays are thoseKept by ourselves in silence and apart

Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman’s appearance.

What sort of a book would you like to read next?" she asked.

Women's health needs to be front and center - it often isn't, but it needs to be.

You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics.

There are many wrong reasons to want to be an entrepreneur. I think there's only one good reason: to change the world.

I think 'SNL' was such a unique thing because it was material you created and you're very comfortable with it, even though the setting was pressure-packed.

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.