Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.

Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.

The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.

You know, it's always good to have a synonym just for variety.

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.

You'll never find rainbows, If you're looking down...

Before I got my present job, I spent many years teaching writing part-time, so-called, at community colleges and universities. It's academia's version of migrant labor.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.

The end of one stage is only the beginning of another. Any dangers overcome are the necessary preparation to do better in the next stage.