I don't ever participate in debates about the existence or nonexistence of God because I can't imagine why anyone would be persuaded one way or the other by such things.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations.

The government should not be in the business of funneling money for social services through any faith-based organization

We do want our fellow citizens to respect our deeply held conviction that the absence of an afterlife lends a greater, not a lesser, moral importance to our actions on earth.

one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.

Real-life discussions involve a great many bores and boors who have never learned that the art of conversation demands listening as well as talking.

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer no more.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

At its heart, all intellectual and emotional life is a conversation, and the conversation begins at birth.

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

There is force in the universe, which, if we permit it, will flow through us and produce miraculous results.

A good woman comes in all shapes and colors.When you find her, adore her.

Later, " Amos said, "when you're wishing we had this stuff, I am going to merciless in my mockery. And then we'll die.

I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

A lot of people have high expectations. I'm just going to do the best I can.

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

I got married in Vegas on Warped Tour on July 4 - that's how crazy my life has been.

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.