“You want proof evolution is for real, don’t waste your time with fossils; just check out the New York City rat. They started out as immigrants, stowaways in some ship’s cargo hold. Only the survivors got to breed, and they’ve been improving with every new litter. Smarter, faster, stronger. Getting ready to rule. Manhattan wouldn’t be the first island they took over.”

“Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.”

“Ours is a country where anything can be accomplished if enough people get angry... because, in America, we act on our collective anger.”

“There is no Constitutional right to prey on others. The Internet is just a piece of technology, like the telephone. Society has the right to modify its uses.”

“The goal of a true family is not that their children follow in their footsteps, but that their children surpass them in all ways.”

“The more bullets flying, the less accurate each individual slug has to be.”

“A free press doesn't mean it's not a tame press.”

“A dog is like a person—he needs a job and a family to be what he’s meant to be.”

“People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.”

“If love would die along with death, this life wouldn't be so hard.”

“It's the family you choose that counts.”