A terrified-looking bystander, a nerdy man in a sweater, calls the police and stammers into the phone: 'A huge group of people are fighting and there's pepper spray and superheroes and I don't know.

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

Friends are the fruitcake of life - some nutty, some soaked in alcohol, some sweet.

I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

In the midst of a burning-hot shaming, calling for patience and context and understanding and empathy can really land you in trouble.

The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.

‎I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland.

I'm not what you'd call a fearless type of person.

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.

Gratitude must come from a place of true sincerity to be effective. Without sincerity, the experience is incomplete.

You don’t need to be anywhere

A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands of a racist society must draw the line somewhere.

Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .

The universe is filled with the evidence of God's greatness. In awesome wonder we can consider the worlds He has made.

I was born and raised a Christian and I still adhere to those principles.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

Comedy is a noble art.

It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.