Mormonism is not simply a commitment to a theology or a church practice, but a social-cultural order.

It becomes part of a person's second nature; he belongs to the church, like he belongs to his family, and he does not quit his family because someone in it turns out to be a rascal.

I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scissors and some onomatopoeia.

Friend's future is all yours, but past is ours, we lived it together.

Skeptics are never deceived.

Mental disorders don't really live 'out there' waiting to be explained. They are constructs we have made up - and often not very compelling ones.

Royalty does good and is badly spoken of.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."

Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

Why am I covered in feathers