The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn’t mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?

Every day, people say crappy things about my band or whatever, but I live a positive existence. I got through everything by virtue of having the same passion that I've had through the years.

Inside every fat man, there's a thin man trying to get out.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

You have to go, but I have to stay.

Modesty should accompany youth.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.