There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.

Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

Grief keeps coming back with the same things in its hands — you know this. You know that the hands of grief are memory. Again and again, grief holds the same few things.

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

And his hands would plait the priest's entrails, For want of a rope, to strangle kings.

It's no fun being a specimen.

We take care of our health; we lay up money; we make our roof tight, and our clothing sufficient; but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting in the best property of all, -friends?

All you need in any industry is someone to back you, and Jim Cameron backed me up.

A professional is an amateur who has been working for a long time.

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past