I love America and I hate it. I'm torn between the two. I have two conflicting visions of America. One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

Whenever I see grace, I’m moved.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.