Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your “Core Attachments,” means apologizing for your very existence.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.

I preferred that my bad dreams be vague.