You will understand the true spirit neither of science nor of religion unless seeking is placed in the forefront.

Forgiveness is all about love. Where love abounds, there forgiveness will not tarry

Among the tastemakers and power brokers and intellectual agenda setters of late-twentieth-century America, orthodox Christianity was completely déclassé.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

This city can be kind of brutal, so you see your dreams from every different angle, but ultimately it's about acting and if you enjoy acting, you will always enjoy acting.

People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace.