It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.

All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

I'm not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experienceas that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.

It makes me angry to think that . . . female sanitation workers will spend their days doing a job most of their co-workers think they can't handle, and then they will go home and do another job most of their co-workers don't want.

She say guilt is a useless emotion." "Oh, please," says Nancy. "Guilt is what separates humans from animals.