It was then that I realized that while playing the well-meaning tolerant individual (in short: liberal) garnered you fans and grades, it didn't matter. In my heart and head, I was a fraud.

We need an idiot middle ground, where we have to be honest and say, kids can be idiots and cops can be idiots.

[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.

I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?

Ask dumb questions and listen quietly for the answers. That's a wisdom stair climber.

In the hands of fiends, guns will kill you. In your hands, they protect against such fiends.

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.