Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

The one who truly sacrifices the most is usually the one who talks about it the least

The eyes can see nothing

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.

When you trust the universe, you get to play in the magical world of God's plan.

All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

I NEVER LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED BECAUSE I AM ALWAYS LOOKING AT THE FUTURE. I CAN LOOK BACK AT WHAT I HAVE ACHIEVED WHEN I AM RETIRED - BUT UNTIL THEN IT IS ALL ABOUT FOCUS.

I was never just a 'fill in 16 bars on a beat' rapper. I was making real songs from the jump.

I just want to say thank you to everyone who watched and tuned in and loved my evil gayness.

What can't be changed must be endured.