Okay, so maybe sometimes the real world is smiles and miracles.

Vengeance is sweet. Vengeance taken when the vengee isn't sure who the venger is, is sweeter still.

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn't all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

Whatever it means to be a friend, taking a black eye for someone has to be in it.

A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

What a photograph shows us is how a particular thing could be seen, or could be made to look - at a specific moment, in a specific context, by a specific photographer employing specific tools.

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

I'll make a horrible housewife. It's not like I'm disgusting, but I'm pretty bad about having a drink or eating something and then leaving the plate and rushing to go.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

i am a limitless series of natural disasters and all of these disasters have been unnaturally repressed.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.