I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

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

Work hard, put maximum effort, and have a good attitude. Most importantly never give up.

I have my own style that happens to be different from everyone else in Hollywood. My inspiration is me.

I don't like to sit and count my money and be a "happy entrepreneur".

The people who had the least were the most willing to share.

Truth be told, I'm much more comfortable in a pair of hiking boots or with a rack of climbing gear than in front of a laptop.

Thinking for yourself is still a radical act

This college would probably have the same problem as the last one did." I frowned, "What's that?" "Homework.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac].