Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

There can be differences of opinion without there being personal differences.

Stress isn't caused by bad times, but by working where you feel your talents are being underappreciated.

I have never written anything sexually explicit.

You know, my mother had a rule which was people are just people.

E is for the EDUCATORS, the women who taught us well.

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

I soon discovered, after I became chairman of the NEH, that, for a number of academics, the truth was not merely irrelevant - it no longer existed.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I hardly even leave my own house.

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform. It won't work because it was never designed for that kind of significant legislation; it was designed for deficit reduction.

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.