Love comes from the most unexpected places.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.