If there's one American belief I hold above all others, it's that those who would set themselves up in judgment on matters of what is "right" and what is "best" should be given no rest; that they should have to defend their behavior most stringently. ... As a nation, we've been through too many fights to preserve our rights of free thought to let them go just because some prude with a highlighter doesn't approve of them

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

She is a cat with a burning tail, an ant under a microscope, a fly about to lose its wings to the curious plucking fingers of a third-grader on a rainy day, a game for bored children with no bodies and the whole universe at their feet.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.