I'm less certain now but kinder.

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.

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

Ask not what your country can do for you

You need to be clever to best him. Are you clever, Rach

If we be empty and poor it is not because God's hand is straitened but ours is not opened.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

Find out what people want and help them get it.

I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.

Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Palestinians are not victims in need of aid, they are an occupied & oppressed people in need of freedom.