Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I am always talking about the human condition and about American society in particular: what it is like to be human, what makes us weep, what makes us fall and stumble and somehow rise and go on from darkness into darkness and that darkness carpeted.

There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness.