The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state.

The most popular argument in all these papers was the assertion ... that Christianity had grown and prospered in spite of the opposition of the State.

I'm moving to Nevada. Either there or kill myself.

you call democracy freedom. I call it corporation.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

"When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?"

I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am constantly doing by being what I am.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.

Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.