And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.

Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer.

I didn't have a rigidly enforced religious parental pressure, but I did have a few years in my mid-teens of turning to religion, and it was very meaningful to me.

I don't think there's anything to be admired in lying, cheating or philandering. But there might be something to be admired in not burning people at the stake because they have those weaknesses.

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.

I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.