the truth is often a mixed message

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.

I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.

Overbearing mothers usually give way to one of two things in their children: rebellion or passivity. In your case, the latter.

Thoughts. Thoughts bombard my head, my brain. My psyche

Health can never be divorced from strength.

Well I'm an eight ball shooting, double-fisted drinking son of a gun

If I had 1,000 lives, I'd give them all for China.

The economic insecurity of the past ten to 15 years, the 2008 Wall Street crash, NAFTA, and the loss of millions of good jobs - these directly grow out of Democratic Party neo-liberal policies.

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.

With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger.

I'm very proud that a woman, has finally been chosen as a candidate for the president of the United States, because I always felt women should be treated like first-class citizens.

I think a lot of parents live their lives through the kids. Because they didn't make it [achieve something], they want their kids to make it. It puts a lot of undue pressure on the kids.