The knot of intimacy at the center of 'Ten Thousand Saints' is the friendship between Teddy McNicholas and Jude Keffy-Horn.

I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.

There are more clocks than ever - clocks on computers, on cell phones, on televisions, on any screen available, telling time to the digital second - but they all seem to matter less.

I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards.

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

Neither when we have chosen our way can we keep company with those who go the other way. There must come with the decision for truth a corresponding protest against error.

In my lab, we're interested in the transition from chemistry to early biology on the early earth.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

I was always playing the hard-bitten drunk.