To preach about sin, but refuse to integrate grace and mercy is a sermonic sin.

The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

You will only fail to learn if you do not learn from failing.

Your face expresses a simple majesty, your look is that of a captive princess.

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

If you've got somebody in harm's way, you want the president being -- making advice, not -- be given advice by the military, and not making decisions based upon the latest Gallup poll or focus group.

History can tell us what happened in the past. But it cannot assert that it must happen again in the future.

People don't want information; they want epiphanies.

Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —