I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

True patriots measure themselves not by personal wealth or power but by the degree to which they contribute to the community.

The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?

Today's multiracial Americans are at greater liberty to choose how they'd like to be seen, and under less pressure to pass for white.

We're all better off...when we're all better off.

The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.

Identity in America is complicated but it's also simple: it's about whom you identify with and who identifies with you.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

Society becomes how you behave.

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.

Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.

Don’t give up. Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. There is a time for the fulfillment of your dreams.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

As you walk through the valley of the unknown, you will find the footprints of Jesus both in front of you and beside you.

Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates.

Liberty can no more exist without virtue and independence than the body can live and move without a soul.

We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.

The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.

In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.