Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

Killing me will not end your grief. It will only create more of it.

The relationship between Israel and the United States is a bond of - it's just a very powerful bond. It was, it is, and will be and will continue to be.

Everybody knows we're big liberals and I was a very outspoken Hillary Clinton supporter, and I still am. It's impossible for us to separate the songs we're writing from what's going on in the world.

How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.

There's something very romantic to me about people who persevere, and who get told "no, no, no" on a daily basis, and still do it anyway.

I was scared everyday I put on the uniform.

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.

[Postpartum] is a raw time when you need your friends and family to swoop in in a very real way.

Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.