I find Jesus my confidant and companion, brother and savior; our relationship is intimate, vulnerable, demanding yet comfortable and reassuring.

I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

I have osteoarthritis, which especially affects my knees.

Speaking for myself, my very integrity as a human being needs to include my freedom to explore who I am both spiritually and sexually. Not just to explore - but to practice.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

There is no place in my soul, no corner of my character, where God is not.

My family gave me values that have sustained me through situations that would challenge any person. My personal relationship with the Lord inspires me in all I do.

I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

The chief difficulty Alice found at first was in managing her flamingo.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The method of our time is to use not a single but multiple models for exploration.

If you're going to do Chuck Berry, you got to, you know, go all out, and the duck walk is just kind of you know, cursory. That's like standing.

Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.