Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

I learn poetry, learn text, and that really keeps you alive.

Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God's name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.

I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.

Your actions are your only true belongings.

I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

The best way to get children excited about reading is to read to them from the beginning of their lives.

There’s no story that’s the start of itself.

I’ve longed for kids since I was very, very young.