The fact that the federal government is the nation's greatest environmental villain has not stopped activists from reflexively turning to politicians to “protect the environment.”

Utopia is not one of the options.

The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.

Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.

Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship must also be disassembled.

With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

The people see that Wall Street is running our economic policy, that big oil is running our energy policy and the military industrial complex is determining our foreign policy.

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to the substance of the body and not to its form; while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.