every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

There's a big mistake the left has made with talking to religious people, which is attempting to talk them out of their interpretations of the Bible, attempting to have theological debate with them. When I'm on right-wing whackjob radio, when people call up to inform me that I'm going to hell, I concede the point. "I'm going to hell. Yes. Can you leave me alone now?"

Outing is brutal and it should be reserved for brutes

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.