The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads during the Civil War and justified it.

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

Life is a concept, like the “universe", that expands as soon as we reach what we think is its edge.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

For me success was always going to be a Lamborghini. But now I've got it, it just sits on my drive.

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

How terrible when people are led to believe, or left to believe, that once they are in love they have nothing to do but live happily ever after, they have nothing further to learn.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.

How come there's only one Monopolies Commission?

Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.