The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish.

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

When it comes to family, everything gets personal.

Creativity - waking up in a different place every day.

Failure is a friend if we can see past the face of the foe that we project on it.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

The poor manufacture the engines of their own destruction, but it's the rich who sell them.

I believe anybody who is not afraid to fail is a winner.

I do love the weird, and I realize that I write much in that tradition, so I'm happy to be counted in among some of my favorite authors.

I'm wondering if the crew [from'The Hateful Eight'] had some sort of nickname for me. I am blanking at anything truly funny, so I'll just say, 'No Phone Quentin'.

You have this weird thing where you end up trying to fight against this faceless blob, where the more you hate it, the bigger it gets, because it's all in your head.

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.