When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

…there was no more safety to be found in love than there was to be found in a virus.

Homer and Candy passed by the empty and brightly lit dispensary; they peeked into Nurse Angela's empty office. Homer knew better than to peek into the delivery room when the light was on. From the dormitory, they could hear Dr. Larch's reading voice. Although Candy held tightly to his hand, Homer was inclined to hurry - in order not to miss the bedtime story.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.