Creation, in all its splendor and misery, in all the beauty and ugliness of its myriad forms, is how God manifests His presence in time. Creation is God in time.

From her character in the HBO miniseries: "The art of politics is the art of applying the seat of the britches to the seat of the chair.

All proofs rest on premises.

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

One is too small a number to achieve greatness.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

The photographer projects himself into everything he sees, identifying himself with everything in order to know it and to feel it better.

When the status and power of women is greater so also is the nation’s general quality of life; when they are lower, so is the quality of life for all.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

But in psychoanalysis there are no unimportant thoughts; there are only thoughts that pretend to be unimportant in order to not be told.

My worst song is stimulating beyond words. My best songs are downright scary.