Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground.

The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine.

Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.

Hard work is for people short on talent.

Life is a near-death experience.

There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have.

Suppose I could shoot myself in the mouth, but what if I miss? People will laugh at me.