It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

Our own lives feel so disordered and confusing, so it's amazing to me that the filmmakers caught the personal, emotional high points and low points of my life and not just the public aspects.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

When unique voices are united in a common cause, they make history.

Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.