When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.

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

Lifting, smiling back at her giggle, her relief, I tease, “If you want to bleed sweetheart, I can make you bleed. I promise if I do it will be way more fun.

Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts.

I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ.

But let the good prevail.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

Understand that you need to sell you and your ideas in order to advance your career, gain more respect, and increase your success, influence and income.

Male initiation does not move toward machoism; on the contrary, it moves toward achieving a cultivated heart before we die.

the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die

To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.