An Edward Povey hangs in my living room and every day I am reminded of his originality, his beauty, and the eternal promise of his craft.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

Abortion does not compute with my philosophy.

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

It's not refreshing where there is confusion or any kind of discomfort in a group that has to work that closely together.

Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

I've done a lot of television in life, and I don't remember the last time that I felt so consistently happy [working with Jenji Kohan].

I was caught in a private cycle of sadness and the only conceivable relief I could find was in the telling.

Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.

Having made Jesus your all, you shall find your all in Jesus.

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Love is the greatest of educators.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

If we're going to ban all Muslims, how are we going to get them to be part of a coalition to destroy ISIS?

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice.

The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.