We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.

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 used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray.

I don't wanna be a Twinkling Star or a Radiant Moon or a Shining Sun. Just to be a Spectacular Sky in their backdrop.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

What Ive been developing is a vegan fast food chain and vegan food markets.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate

People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

I was 21, when I heard the story that inspired this [thriller Allied], and I wasn't even a screenwriter then.

A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

If you worshipped Muhammad, know that Muhammad is dead. But if you worshipped Allah, know that Allah never dies.