Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Lord keep us from all evil so that our lives will be free of pain.

I have never been so calculating as to sing some Barry White song to get a girl. But I do think it's very romantic to cook dinner and sit around the piano at night and sing together.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

Trying to run a church without revivals can be done when you can run a gasoline engine on buttermilk.

If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

No story has power, nor will it last, unless we feel in ourselves that it is true and true of us.

We felt like we had done as much as you can do with the slasher genre. We were trying to find the next group of scary movies that were ripe for parody.

I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.

I was also a congressman. I had decided to run for office and had become a congressman with Queen Latifah.

The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.