"It's best to leap into something you know you love. You might change your mind later, but that is the privilege of youth."

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars."

"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."

"The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege."

"The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another."

"In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage."

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."

"The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group - to say nothing of gay marriage - are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life."