The business end of business has never interested me.
Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.
You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.
I got married before I found myself. People should find themselves before they get married.
Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.
Historically the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.