Ted Seabrooke, my wrestling coach, had a kind of Nietzschean effect on me in terms of not just his estimation of my limited abilities, but his decidedly philosophical stance about how to conduct your life, what you should do to compensate for your limitations. This was essential to me, both as a student - and not a good one - and as a wrestler who was not a natural athlete but who had found something he loved.

Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

You can give yourself a headache trying to decipher the tattoos on a naked man who’s leaping up and down on a bed.

My life as a writer consists of 1/8 talent and 7/8 discipline.

I think now that is the nature of hymns-they make us want to repeat them...they are a part of any service, and often the only part of a funeral service, that makes us feel everything is acceptable.

I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

What has been violated here is your freedom of choice, and every woman's freedom of choice, too.