Objective truth itself is sometimes often seen as a right wing Republican-Christian plot to take over the government (though the rhetoric is cleverer than that, that's the bottom line).

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.

The opposite of Christianity is not atheism, but idolatry.

Moral stupidity comes in two different forms: relativism and legalism. Relativism sees no principles, only people; legalism sees no people, only principles.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

Don't be more serious than God. God invented dog farts.

There is one and only one possible road to joy: selfless love.

Abortion is the Antichrist's demonic parody of the eucharist. That's why it uses the same holy words, "This is my body," with the blasphemous opposite meaning.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

Even though people pretend that medical records are privileged information, anyone can already get their hands on them.

As she fled fast through sun and shade The happy winds upon her play'd, Blowing the ringlet from the braid.

If someone is talking to you and tells you that you ought to do something, and you can tell they mean it, those are the scary people. Those are the people you want to watch out for.

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.