I think there probably was a time when I was less provocative. That's when I was married.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

God's Heart is especially tender toward the downtrodden and the defeated. He knows your name and He has seen every tear you have shed.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.

I'm not afraid of a world with less consumerism, less 'stuff' and no economic growth. I'm far more frightened of the opposite

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.