We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

To teach kids that creationism explains something about the world is no different than teaching them that the earth is flat.

We're willing to move pretty far on this issue, we're much more tolerant than we used to be, but don't mix it up with religion and God.

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered.

I do think funny is like sexy. You're either funny and sexy, or you're not.

I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?

I don't like movies that are trying to preach and trying to tell you how to feel.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

The way people in the United States execute human beings would not pass muster for euthanasia of animals.

But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am.

I myself, at one time, wanted to be like the explorers of the Himalayas that I used to read about; people intoxicated on the myth of history.

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.