All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

Consumerism is our national religion.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

What you say is who you are. How you say it is your style.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

When I went to school, they told me literature was a rope I must use to climb out of the dark well of unknowing. Writers are the knots on the rope.

Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.

Longing is all that lasts.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

During the summertime, I really like to dress like a gypsy. I love that whole lifestyle and the whole mixing of fabrics and flowy materials.

[Brian Hyland autograph] was what got me started on going to concerts, because from then on, I was at every concert for everybody.

If your own mind is muddled, much more will the minds of your hearers be confused.

America is a country founded on religious freedom and liberty.

Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.

I think what Osama bin Laden does is to take the fact that some peoples lack hope and lack opportunity, and twist it to his own ends.

The minute you walk outside of your church on Sunday you're in mission territory.

The only reason integrity should be a burden to you is if you enjoy being dishonest.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.