I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

I was in chemical jail.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Sovereignty and the right to rule cannot be conferred on anyone no matter who ... as a result of an academic discussion. Sovereignty is acquired by force and power and violence.

We are all called to be friends with Jesus. Don’t be afraid to love the Lord.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.