“I’m a preservationist, I believe in preserving history intact, but I also enjoy the technological advances which have been made.”

I’m a civic busybody and I’ve been blessed with an active career.

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

Confidence in the human capacity for problem solving, for invention, for innovation.

We have to be vigilant about how the Trump administration may try to divide us from each other.

I am emboldened, not cowed, by the words and actions of Trump and his circle. I believe many others are as well. Together we will stand in opposition. I’m not going anywhere, and I won’t be silenced.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

Do your duty as an American, and as a citizen of the galaxy… Vote!

To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.

Should any terrorist strike or act of war occur in which American lives are lost, we must be on guard for any attempt by the government to turn that tragedy into justification for sweeping action.

But when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.

Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.

Nothing is what it seems on the surface of Heroes.

My memories of camp – I was four years old to eight years old – they’re fond memories.

We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders, and to stem the tide of division, fear and scapegoating.

Today we have the economic collapse that the whole planet is suffering, but there is hope, and that’s what’s going to keep us moving ahead.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history.

Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade.

One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.