When a girl says she likes you as a friend, what she means is: "Rather than have sex with you, I would prefer to lose you as a friend."

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

If you can act as if something is true, in a sense that makes it true.

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.