Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.

If God himself can't save this world without sacrifice... how can we?

Previous journeys in search of treasure have taught me that a zigzag strategy is the best way to get ahead.

Don’t cover up your sore with your wealth. Your wealth has limitations. At the Limit the sore will embarrassing by surface

Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Laughter is the most powerful weapon against verbal attack anyone can have.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

The ultimate cynicism is to suspend judgment so that you are not judged.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it out, make it little.