America is not a democracy. I think if your kids understood that - and most people don't. We are a representative republic. We're not a direct democracy.

If Thomas Jefferson thought taxation without representation was bad, he should see how it is with representation.

Poverty is not the root cause of crime.

Liberals attempt through judicial activism what they cannot win at the ballot box.

We're not sexists, we're chauvinists - we're male chauvinist pigs, and we're happy to be because we think that's what men were destined to be. We think that's what women want.

End results that work that don’t involve government threaten liberals.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

Styrofoam and plastic milk jugs are biodegradable! Do you know what isn't biodegradable? Paper!

I think cigars are just a tremendous addition to the enjoyment of life.

The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

In a country of children where the option is Santa Claus or work, what wins?

Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

Love. It doesn't change for any person to any person. It evolves.

You can alter mood by running.

I wonder what it would be like to be with a boy who blushes when he looks at my skin.

Secularism breeds narcissism. There is nothing higher to live for, so you live for you

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

We will unearth the talent from every part of India and give them a platform to make it big.

Loving means getting rid of names.

My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.