When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

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.

I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.

You don't love perfectly without first loving imperfectly.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.

I have always thought it a matter of honour for every chess player to deserve the smile of fortune.

What will we answer to Him about that child, that old father and mother, because they are His creation, they are children of God.

I don't think the show would be funny to you if you didn't already have a base of information.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.