The author challenges how much sanctity has to do with sameness, as he says saints are as different from each other as those in any group -- even murderers.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

...this clumsy collision of two very impatient forms of ignorance was known as the quarrel of Science and Religion.

There are some people who may be good yet toxic for you, so be careful of who you surround yourself with.

You want to be bad, angel? I can teach you every position it comes in

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.

In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

There was never any point at which I was considering leaving Harry Potter. If I were to stop acting, it would have been after.

I will never forget Oprah's [Winfrey] major contribution to my success by having me perform on her show (March '91) and introducing me as, "the voice that brought her out of the shower!"

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.