The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

In the Netherlands now, I imagine it's legal to marry your own children. Get them pregnant, and you can abort your unborn grandbabies in a free clinic that used to be a church.

It didn't seem fair to me that Jon Stewart's rally didn't get the same kind of attention that Glenn Beck's did. Why was Beck's seen as checking the thermometer of the country, and Jon Stewart just dismissed as a satirist?

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Weird doors open. People fall into things.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

The fake slap invariably makes contact, adding the elements of shock and betrayal to what had previously been plain old-fashioned fear.