It is not discrimination to treat different things differently.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason, and those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.

Of all the hard jobs around, one of the hardest is being a good teacher.

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

Any system that values profit over human life is a very dangerous one indeed.

Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king.

The point of living and of being an optimist is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.

Science fiction is the characteristic literary genre of the century. It is the genre that stands in opposition to literary modernism.

The only literary men are those who have to work at it.

Don't just put it off and think about it!

Ladies love a soppy lyric. There's a real winner in 'Carry You Home'.

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.

I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.