My late father used to say that they started out without two nickles to rub together and lived in that little house in Everroad Park West.

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.

I change my style maybe every month. I'm, like, punk one month, ghetto fab the next, classy the next. I'm just young and finding out who I am.

Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last.

There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.

moral codes and standards in our societies very rarely apply to all people equally. This is the most damning proof of how immoral such codes and standards really are.

If you write interesting roles, you get interesting people to play them. If you write roles that are full of nuance and contradiction and have interesting dialog, actors are drawn to that.

Nothing is more useful to man that those arts which have no utility.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks... lying that I knew how to drive a truck... and doing commercials and documentaries.

Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.