My Christmas was a sum total of the ministrations of adults, usually adults who wanted me to encourage my parents to buy something for me to consume and discard.

Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom.

We paw at nostalgia even before we hit twenty, wanting a holiday that never happened, a wholesomeness that could not survive in the wild.

Students view any teacher who does not bury them under work as some sort of mentally impaired kitten to be kicked aside.

If you are old enough to feel angst about how a holiday “feels, ” you are very likely no longer in the target demographic.

The only hope for social networking sites from a business point of view is for a magic formula to appear in which some method of violating privacy and dignity becomes acceptable.

I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts.

Loving the world destroys our relationship with God, it denies our faith in God, and it discounts our future with God.

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

Women are the face of hunger. Hunger has a female face. It affects women disproportionately, and therefore it affects children as well, and it gets passed on inter-generationally, too.

No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.

The great thing about university is that they incline you to get up and do it, from the Classics to modern plays, to the humor that Monty Pythons made popular.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

Dogs give us something just as we give something to them.

The most important thing when ill is to never lose heart.