Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Author complains about "the further submergence of irrecoverable history into a perpetually churned present.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

Get evangelical Christian made them receptive to the possibility of redemption in the here and now.

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, "What you are doing is none of my business" and "What I am doing is none of your business.

National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.

Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really love them.

To find the magnificence of life, count your blessings.

If you are truly able to walk in the shoes of Christ, the very label of religion called Christianity would disappear from the face of earth.

I have found that it's not so much how you start, but how you finish that counts." -Declan

It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.

Years ago on the set of Gunsmoke I read the book The Holy Science. Since then I have not eaten meat.

It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you.

I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of mixing the visual and the textual.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

The volume of Nature is the book of knowledge.