We were asked to do very little, and we responded. That's the bargain we tacitly make with our presidents: we won't ask too much of you, if you don't ask too much of us.

Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.

A boy, Ranga, is the light in his father’s eye and the love in his mother’s heart.

When it comes to your self-esteem, it is best not to value the opinions of deluded psychopaths.

I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

Any woodthrush shows it - he sings, not to fill the world, but because he is filled.

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

My fans will tell you all day that I can rap. That's all I need.