I'm pretty sure there is no such thing as God.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It's a real time-saver, because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

The filibuster is an affront to commonly understood democratic norms, but then so is the Senate.

A "communist/socialist/progressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheist/evangelical Christian/Muslim."

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

The grace of living life is to give glory to God.

Compassion brings people together.

Learn to say 'No' it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

The road is not a problem. It's not any more tempting. People don't come up with giant bags of drugs or gallons of alcohol and say, 'You've got to do this.' It happens to me more at home.

Yes, the marriage proposal was shot. Michael excluded the dialogue from the final edit.

A good general not only sees the way to victory; he also knows when victory is impossible.

More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager.

This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.