Within the framework of something very dramatic, funny things happen. Organically, from them.

There's a lot of talk about division right now in America, and I really want to unite people and go like: 'Those are my problems, too, I feel that, too."

I think people want to feel stuff right now.

I am very aware of the impact that television has on people, in changing perceptions.

Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

In America, sometimes people think all Latinos can be deported, and we can't. You know, I can't be deported.

Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

The pathway traced with blood and tears, and dust of all our father's dead, Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red, Fade to the mist of nameless years.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)

Slumps are like a soft bed. They are easy to get into and hard to get out of.

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

The surest thing about me is that I will change my mind.

Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.

The neocons are supporting Hillary [Clinton] just like the neoliberals are. She's seeking the endorsement of Henry Kissinger as well.

I have studied the child. I have taken what the child has given me and expressed it and that is what is called the Montessori method.

You'll feel better when you get all that debt off your back.

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.