I used to dream of true love; now I'm open to false, but convincing.

Catholic extremism should be resisted as fiercely at home as we oppose the Taliban abroad.

If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.

Nothing sells tombstones like a Girl Scout in uniform.

Choose old people for enemies. They die. You win.

If you give a man a hammer, he thinks he can solve all problems by pounding. Well, God gave men penises.

The boss is never your friend, even if you're sleeping with him.

Never make enemies of anyone younger or healthier than you are. They write your history.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you're going on a date.

Even a poor tour guide is entitled to some happiness.

Desire is the impulse that sparks the flame.

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Ours is the old, old story of every uprising race or class or order. The work of elevation must be wrought by ourselves or not at all.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.

I think a lot of guys who are on the internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.

Thats what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

My mother is French, my father is Texan.

We make no apologies for setting high standards.