Saying someone is religious is heard in most of America as a compliment, a reassuring affirmation that someone will be moral, ethical, and after a few glasses of wine, a freak in the bedroom.

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

But females in even the most advanced Muslim countries are simply, by law, not the equal of men.

Just like in the workplace, women who are good workers are the best workers.

The real axis of evil in America is the genius of our marketing and the gullibility of our people.

We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.

I hate stupidity, but what I hate even more is when people actually brag about it.

I don't respect thinking that is dangerous, prejudicial, childish, and could get me killed.

We're a complacent society, hard to get riled up in the first place, and then when we do, it's misdirected.

Brave Americans in past wars didn't die for the actual flag--they died for the freedom it represents, including the freedom to burn it.

America is bad at discriminating between danger likely to strike again, and red herrings, the freaking helpings of disaster that no man or plan can prevent.

But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.

It must be hard for people who only knew darkness not to be blinded by the light

With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations.

We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being able to answer back.

I did masses of opiates religiously.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

... the unnatural ways we substitute for the natural prove not enough and soon there must be more and more unnaturalness, more and more violence.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.