“Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.”

“One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.”

“The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.”

“I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.”

“Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.”

“I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking.”

“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”

“Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.”

“How can you tell somebody who is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?”

“The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ”