The single best thing about honesty is that it requires no follow-up.

A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I have items of clothing that are lucky for me. That rotates, but I am luck-oriented.

Clearly, there has been a lack of imagination about how much can go wrong.

If you're someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that's a sign of a life lived honorably.

I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.

Here’s the thing about rights. They’re not actually supposed to be voted on. That’s why they’re called rights.

I'm undoubtedly a liberal, which means that I'm in almost total agreement with the Eisenhower-era Republican party platform.

Hopefully life is long. Do stuff you will enjoy thinking about and telling stories about for many years to come. Do stuff you will want to brag about.

I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense that you can take what I say to the bank, even if you disagree with me.

Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party.

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that goal. It's sort of like math.

If I don’t know who I am apart from everyone else, I probably need to spend some time apart from everyone else.

It's bad luck not to believe in luck.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

There are no guarantees, but being ready sure beats being taken by surprise

I was raised in a family where no one had a serious bone in their body and every answer was a riddle, a joke, or a prank.

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.

What can you do right now to begin to turn your life around? The very first thing is to start making a list of the things you are grateful for.

Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.

Civilization involves subjection of force to reason, and the agency of this subjection is law.

I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there's much, much more I can do.