Now, if Mary has an egg cell, then Jesus gets 50 percent of his genetic make up from his mother. And if his mother is a child of Adam, she, too,is fallen so Jesus is not perfect.

I do assert that one prepares for eternity not by being religious and keeping the rules, but by living fully, loving wastefully, and daring to be all that each of us has the capacity to be.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

I think one of the things we've got to look out for is human beings claiming that they know how God operates.

The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and must be dismissed.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

I don't want a God that would go around killing people's little girls. Neither do I want a God who would kill his own son.

I prepare for death by living.

You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.

St. Clair clears his throat. 'My fiancée and I are headed out for a celebratory dessert. I'd ask you all to join us, but I don't want you there.

To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished.

I love zombies. If any monster could Riverdance, it would be zombies.

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.

Scientific advertising has altered many old plans and conceptions. It has proved many long established methods to be folly

I never tried to emulate my father. Anyone trying to do that would be a second-rate carbon copy.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

If Americans thought music and art belonged together, they wouldn't have the Grammys.

History is the daughter of time.

I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.