“Satire is the antidote to Pollyanna and Dr. Pangloss. It focuses our gaze sharply upon the the contrast between things as they are and as they should be.”

“America's obsession with defining homosexuality by its third syllable contrasts sharply with more human exercises from Europe.”

“No artifice,no pretending to faintor slipping so he could catch me.Just our locked gaze tightening the space between usuntil our voicesneed only whisper,lips to ear, then lips upon lips.”

“The willingness to reexamine lifelong beliefs because of conflicting data takes enormous courage, and contrasts sharply with recent examples of public discourse in which our political, cultural, and religious leaders have fit data to preconceived theories.”

“Self-pity imprisons us in the walls of our own self-absorption. The whole world shrinks down to the size of our problem, and the more we dwell on it, the smaller we are and the larger the problem seems to grow. Awareness of others is a healthy antidote to this self-focus.”

“Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.”