All children are atheists, they have no idea of God.

If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.

When God speaks faith has to connect to His Word because if you allow only your feelings to connect no root can be formed.

That gap between half sleep and half awakening has always been occupied by nostalgia.

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.

One of my fears is that I'm suddenly not going to be funny, but still think I am. That's like my nightmare that I can wake up in a cold sweat from.

I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place.

I think you have to be careful not to do too much as yourself. Otherwise you stop getting the acting roles, and at the end of the day that's what I love.

Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.