Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

Many people don’t realize the connection between music and literature and I’m here to tell them that it does exist!

Strangers are endearing because you don’t know them yet.

The body of Christ is about doing life together, and by doing life together sin is revealed.

Around the lunch table everyone seems to have given something up---dairy, meat, gluten, sugar, carbs. Only in a land of plenty could people voluntarily go without so much.

The scent of flowers is the glory of gardens and the scent of art is the glory of Paris!

You cannot be quiet about things that you know.

In the stars is written the death of every man.

There's nothing you can do about what social media is now or the internet. You just try to find other avenues to make yourself seen and heard.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

The world globes itself in a drop of dew.