I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

Social power is at stake in theory-making, but the workings of this power are often unacknowledged -- and overdeter

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny one, that's what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade.

I'm easy to get along with, and intolerant.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman.

A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.

I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.

Here's how to determine God's will for your life: Go wherever your gifts will be exploited the most.