The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent - open to public inspection or oversight - its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.

Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

The quality of leaders matters less than the quality of citizens.

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail; and when you're a left-wing sorehead, everything is an occasion to damn the rich.

There is a man waiting for a woman like you, don't settle for someone who only opens half of your heart.

One of Obama’s greatest failures will be his legacy of making millions completely dependent on government handouts, not work....So sad.

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.

Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.

Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

What really made me a performance artist was that I was able to step back and assess. I've always had [that ability], but it was coming to an understanding.

Everything is falling into place.

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.