“Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.” — Henry Rollins Quote

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

My understanding of first-degree murder is that premeditation needs to be proven.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

At times, I feel America is something that I can actually put my arms around, more than a land mass and a Constitution, something far more containable and understandable. I don't exactly know what it is, but at these times I feel completely woven into it.

I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard to do a worse job running American than the Republicans have, but if anybody can do it, it's the Democrats.

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness.

But hoping," he said, "is how the impossible can be possible after all.