I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.

Where there is dirt there is system. Dirt is the byproduct of a systematic ordering and classification of matter.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.

Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.

The human body is always treated as an image of society.

Institutions have the pathetic megalomania of the computer whose whole vision of the world is its own program.

Isn’t it an irony of the sorts that most evolved people think that they are dispensable, lesser humans think that they are indispensable, and the devolved ones think that rest are dispensable.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

You can make your marriage a little bit of heaven on earth by following God's plan of teamwork.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

I just celebrated my fourth birthday on the set, my fourth birthday cake. So it's been awhile and, you know, I grew up with these guys.

Lust comes creeping through the night to feed on hearts of suburban wives who learned to pretend when they met their dreams end.

I'm an adrenaline junkie, I won't deny it. I'm not addicted to anything in life, except adrenaline.

I always said that I'm not the best singer in the world, just the loudest.