It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could

A funny thing about tolerant people? They're really only tolerant when you agree with them.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

If America was a house, the Left would root for the termites.

The great thing about being rich is, you can embrace practices that kill the poor - that's what socialism does.

When you talk about Islamic terror. You go, oh, you're an Islamic - you're Islamophobic because you besmirching all Muslims. No. I'm talking about Islamic terror.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

Military simulation is an important way of training people for an emergency

Chris Matthews is so nuts that if he ate a snickers bar it would be cannibalism.

I want to make a positive point of Ikea. It makes income inequality a minor distraction.

A journey begins with a single step

There's one blessing only the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

Spend a lifetime in hard work with a humble mind.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

I didn't see painters doing paintings of glassware and glass shelves or sand dunes and receding snow fences. Why does that interest photographers and not artists?

I think [Phil Wood] didn't suffer fools gladly, but he loved supporting young people that loved the music.

I've spent a lot of time wondering, What's going to happen? What's going to happen? I try not to allow myself to do that much anymore. I think ive gotten more comfortable with the unknown.

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and invention over fact and truth. Figurative language is suspicious.

Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact.