Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

The Lord wants double edged artistry, praising God's name and setting things straight.

Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names.

I am convinced that we Christ-followers need an understanding of playfulness if we are going to take sanctification by the Holy Spirit seriously.

Jesus is persecuted in every injured saint, and He is mighty to avenge His beloved ones.

Secret to what?""Secret to shutting you up, " he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.

I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

A man with God is always in the majority.

Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

I sense a thousand strands of sorrow are sewn into an inch of my spirit.

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.