"The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus."

“Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base”

“I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.”

Source : Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 17, 2010.

“Don't get stressed over the little things and make sure you're enjoying life to the fullest.”

“David Remnick [the New Yorker's editor in chief]is about as interested in anything gay as I am interested in anything to do with baseball. It drives me nuts.”

“There is no excuse, nor should there be any tolerance, for anyone who thinks or expresses any kind of anti-Semitic remark. I want to apologize specifically to everyone in the Jewish community for the vitriolic and harmful words that I said to a law enforcement officer the night I was arrested on a DUI charge.”

“There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.”

Source : "How Peter Orszag's Budget Team Makes America Work" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1, 2010.

“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”

“Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.”