We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than any other major country.

A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.

The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.

What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

It's better to show up than to give up.

It's time to make our government work for all of us... and not just the 1%.

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.

The point is change can come about, but it only comes about when millions of people are actively involved in political struggle, the billionaires may have the money, but we have the people.

What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Magical places are always beautiful and deserve to be contemplated ... Always stay on the bridge between the invisible and the visible.

For every thinking and reflecting man the existence of evil is a riddle he cannot escape.

...the making of stories is only one part of my craft -mainly, I'm a heart whisperer...

You're only as good as your last article, so make it memorable.

Me I'm just a hack. I'm just a schlep-per. I just do what I can do.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

But she never just accepted me for the way I was.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising.