The unemployment rate is now at 9.2%, which is scary, because experts say 9.5 is the point at which people are desperate enough to consider Michele Bachmann.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm the Beatles.

Let's face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

The problem is that the people with the most ridiculous ideas are always the people who are most certain of them.

If you have a gun, you can rob a bank, but if you have a bank, you can rob everyone.

False hope really makes you cynical.

To a coward, courage always looks like stupidity.

It's not getting any better for the American people. It seems to be getting worse. That's predictable; education is a cycle. Stupidity breeds more stupidity.

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

Here's the thing about Donald Trump: He never apologizes. He's never wrong, no matter what crazy thing he says. He's totally - he's the white Kanye.

Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?

Floundering around, learning by doing but also by failing, is not only good but inevitable.

The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work

Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

A girl should set her sights on a man who has money; or if not, who can expect to come into money; or if not, who has moneyed connections.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

There are moments where you stop living, if you stop changing, and if you stop seeking growth of some sort.

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.