“Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?”

“Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.”

“The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.”

“Distance is nothing when you are something.”

“People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.”

“Mungkin ini keterlalun, apa yang sudah lalu masih aku lalui. aku cinta masa laluku. ia sudah berlalu mencintaiku, aku masih terlalu mencintainya. selalu.”

“Ternyata kamu masih selalu kalah oleh keadaan. Lihat, bahkan memaksa kodok berdiri tegap masih lebih mudah daripada mengakuiku. Karena setiap mereka tanya siapa aku, kamu akan terdiam, paling tidak menarik nafas. Jadi mana mungkin kamu mengundangku datang ke rumahmu yang besar, yang hanya berisikan banyak pertanyaan?”