"Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything."

"Find out what you're afraid of and go live there."

"You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."

"I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart."

"The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others."

"It is a smaller thing to suffer punishment than to have deserved it."

"I'm not for gay marriage, but I'm not for discriminating against people."

"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."