If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

What my mom failed to understand was that I didn't even want long hair -- I needed long hair. And my desire for protracted, flowing locks had virtually nothing to do with fashion, nor was it a form of protest against the constructions of mainstream society. My motivation was far more philosophical. I wanted to rock.

Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.