Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

While contemporary non-Evangelicals have virtually reduced faith to 'courageous ignorance,' Evangelicals have hardly been faithful in defending God's objective communication of truth.

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates.

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.

If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.

There is no better high than discovery.

My mom wouldn't let me buy clothes she didn't like, so I dressed like a middle-aged woman in high school.

[Photography is] very related to poetry. It's suggestive and fragmentary and unsatisfying in a lot of ways. It's as much about what you leave out as what you put in.

If you add something to a painting, never let it be for aesthetic reasons. Only let it be for reasons of expression.

Shut the door, Wales.

Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.

I would always cast Meryl Streep for everything. I would do with something inspired by the work of Guy Bourdin, my favorite photographer.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

There is no man who has not some interesting associations with particular scenes, or airs, or books, and who does not feel their beauty or sublimity enhanced to him by such connections.