The good parent: someone who doesn't mind, for a time, being hated by their children.

Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.

Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you’ll also, by implication … believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.