Respect yourself and others will respect you.

Not what we wish but what we need Oh! let your grace supply The good unasked in mercy grant The ill though asked deny.

Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.

I play football once or twice a week. I eat pretty healthy. I'm in fairly good shape most of the time.

You might be a redneck if you hammer bottle caps into the frame of your front door to make it look nice.

Before I'm a zombie nerd, before I'm a science-fiction nerd, I am a history nerd.

This administration is totally colorblind.

Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.