Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

We all have our scars. That's what falling is love is all about: revealing your scars to somebody who then loves you anyway.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.

I think abortion should be mandatory for about 30 years.

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.

I don't write about my life in my column.

the truth is often a mixed message

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

Originality must compound with inheritance.

I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.

Nora: What are you planning? Patch: I wouldn't call this planning. I'd call this throwing a Hail Mary with seconds left on the clock.

Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops.

Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.

Costs do not exist to be calculated. Costs exist to be reduced.