I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.

Our skin is very thin. It doesn't take much for us to jump off a ledge or to kill one another. It can happen very, very quickly.

I’ve also been reminded recently that while as a society we are moving toward greater inclusion and equality for all people, the tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

The people in Tacloban have great dignity and deserve better than what they have gotten

I believe in a society where all people do well. Not just a handful of billionaires.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.