“Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.”

“The progressive intellectualization of language, its progressive conversion by the work of grammar and logic into a scientific symbolism, ... represents not a progressive drying-up of emotion, but its progressive articulation and specialization. ... We are acquiring new emotions and new means of expressing them.”

“One with true creativity can erase their one past, and replace it with an infinite number of pasts, creating new possibilities for the future.”

“I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.”

“Every moment you live is a possible new beginning, a new chance and a new hope.”

“The New York Times editorial page is like a Ouija board that has only three answers, no matter what the question. The answers are: higher taxes, more restrictions on political speech and stricter gun control.”