Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.

Stereotypes involving Christian identity, Christian persecution is so far back in history now that no one fears it being revived, unless you live in China, I guess.

Peace on earth and mercy mild are still possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.

And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.

When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption

I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.

If you can read the book and say, ‘Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!’ That’s Military Science Fiction.” (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.

America derives its laws from its Constitution. It derives its values from the Bible. We don't get inalienable rights from the Constitution; we get them from God.

A lot of times I feel like people stick around in a relationship because they feel a primal need to be with that person for whatever reason.

I just had to plod along without having any teaching, which was a pity.

I'm liberal, but I watch the three majors. Obviously I watch MSNBC, also CNN and Fox, which is what I would call ridiculously to the right.

My parents were very patient with my pretentious little adolescent snobberies. It took me awhile to accept them.

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

Time is the capital of your life, so spend it wisely.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.