I'm interested in ways of writing about the social world that don't assassinate the life that's in it

Podcasting might be thought of as a form of academic gift

We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

Perhaps the difference between a professor and a bus driver is that the professor can say stupid things with complete authority while the bus driver is not authorized to make brilliant insights.

We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

Every moment in our lives brings the opportunity to love and appreciate this beautiful magical life.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles causes you to bump into people not going your way.

I told my boyfriend after three weeks that I wanted to marry him and that we could do it tomorrow.

While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

Any belief in miracles is flat contradictory not just to the facts of science but to the spirit of science.

I’d rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I’m getting into and what it’s going to be like for our life together.