I watched my mom and dad build everything that matters - a family, a home and a good name.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

I - do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Human cloning is coming.

While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.

This isn't the old days where you can just say stuff and people will believe it.

I want to be very clear - there will be no path to legalization.

Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

Adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

...staring into thin air at thosethings only cats can see (Doctro Sleep)

You're a dangerous fool who should be sent west, " he told the unconscious man. "You have forgotten the face of your father.

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

They're intimidating the networks and levying these fines, so the networks are not sure of what they can or can't do.

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.

Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.