"I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels."

"It takes me forever to actually finish something like a ten-page essay. But, when I do, I usually love what they are. It's a complicated relationship."

"That women are mysterious and unknowable is something every young man grows up believing. Men, on the other hand, never think of themselves as mysterious or confusing, and we are often at a loss as to why women want to figure us out."

"My father was educated in Cork, in the University of Cork, in the '50s."

"African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple."

"Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?"

"And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered."

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft."