If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions.

We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

I believe with all my heart that the Bible is the infallible word of God. I therefore believe that, whatever it says, is so.

Love is commitment; love is a relationship that never gives up.

Sometimes the church isn´t the place where we meet Jesus, it´s the place where we hide ourselves from the world.

My partner and I were going to renew our vowels, but the consonants revolted.

I have weathered many different storms and I know who I am and my friends know who I really am.

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

I’m nauseatingly pro-American. I would have come here from any country. The U.S. is where great things are possible.

I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

As soon as I can afford a studio space, I'll paint again.

Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't deal with concrete issues.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as a memoir. They're essays; they're not an autobiography.