I think that America is such an incredibly dynamic place because of immigration. We fundamentally have been a culture that's been put together from the explosions of other cultures. But it's hard for us to see. We have blinded ourselves to the reality of what our country is.

...one of those very bad men that not even postmodernism can explain away.

Once someone gets a little escape velocity going, ain't no play in the world that will keep them from leaving.

I think what happened to me was that I was always being taught to look, but one day I started to see. And it was because a lot of women in my life were refusing just to be looked at, to be this passive figure.

For me, the battle isn't Hillary [Clinton] vs. [Bernie] Sanders. And I understand that for some people that's the battle. But for me, more than anything, it's stopping a Republican president.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.