We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

The American political system is not good at trading sacrifice now to prevent crises later.

If you look at how the federal government spends our money, it’s an insurance conglomerate protected by a large, standing army.

We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.

I don't trust this [american] government to be regulating corporations. I trust big business to be regulated [by itself] and to be a party to a decent solution.

A government shutdown, it isn't the end of the world. It's a bad thing. The government stops working for a few days. We cover it a lot. Polls turn against who ever made it stop working.

Even more fundamental than housing to the global financial economy is the idea that the U.S. government is a safe asset.

Do not respond to people being upset by confidently giving them advice on how to solve their problems

We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

When you are a writer the assist-to-turnover ratio...there are a lot more turnovers than assists. It's just the nature of the beast.

Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read

Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.

I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.

I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.