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

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Angling is a sport, so sporting ethics should apply.

Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind, /Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, /Above, beneath, betwixt, between.

The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that's the essence of running, and a metaphor for life

The camera photographs what's there.

My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.