We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

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.

When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville)

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that’s the light.

Everybody gets to play.

Hands and lips and teeth, and you'd forgotten-no, you'd never known-this way of knowing someone, this dissolution of self, this autophagy.

Spook: No, I'm not troubled. In fact, I actually think everything is going to be all right. Finally.

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

Effectiveness is best measured by results over time.

I'm more about what's right than having the girl's back no matter what.

Golf is like solitaire. When you cheat, you cheat only yourself.

Sarah, there's a government inside the government, and I don't control it.