Government is an unnecessary evil.

You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

My sympathies have always been for working-class people.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Cynicism is something that is part of the media production of a certain type of subjectivity or consciousness that is passive and disempowered, cynical, fatalistic, pessimistic.

Connecting is the ability to identify with people and relate to them in a way that increases your influence with them.

I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.

When a situation feels dangerous to you, it's probably more safe than you know; when a situation feels safe, that is precisely when you should feel on guard.