You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

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

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more

Music is music.

Love is like air we can't see it but feel it.

I came from another county. I spent 15 years in Wells, but I was treated like an outsider. It was like, "Oh, you're not local."

I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.

Arbores loqui latine. The trees speak Latin.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

Would there be trees if we didn't see them?