No one should have to dance backward all of their lives.

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

You lost your ability to choose the moment you started to use your eyes to see, and your heart to feel. Choice has become nothing but an illusion for you.

If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.

There's two positions in snowboarding. One is looking cool and the other is DEAD!

I said to the waitress, "There's a fly swimming in my soup." She said: "You've got too much soup - he should only be able to paddle."

Believers of Jesus be denouncing Satan on every level, But every Halloween they're dressin' like devils.

Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.

Of course, I may go into a strange bedroom every now and then that I don't want you to write about, but otherwise you can write everything.

My heart… It feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn’t belong to me any more. It belongs to you.

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor.