“Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.”

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.

We approach closer and closer to socialism.

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

…don’t ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let’s just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.

I look to an out gay man or woman as pretty much what I would aspire to. The strength that it takes to do that and the floodgates that open and what they pay for it.

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me – that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

If a teacher wants to know something why doesn’t she look it up herself instead of making we students do it? We benefit ourselves more by listening to her, after all she’s the teacher!

I always finish off my look with a spritz of Vera Wang Pink Princess.

Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?

If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.

Disruption never helps your cause. … It just looks like you’re afraid to have rational discussion.