I grew up in North Carolina being told that the Bible approves slavery and segregation, that it was the will of God.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker, ...

Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.

I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.

Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia have been profound ethical issues confronting doctors since the birth of Western medicine, more than 2,000 years ago.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

I've always been very happy with my role in Radiohead. You're very much a part of everything, but you're much more of a shadowy figure.

And I believe what I believe / Is what makes me what I am / I did not make it, no it is making me / It is the very truth of God and not / The invention of any man.