Today's Catholic church seems to reward authoritarian personalities who are clearly ill, violent, sexually obsessed and unable to remember the past.

To recover a spiritual tradition in which creation, and the study of creation, matters would be to inaugurate new possibilities between spirituality and science that would shape the paradigms for culture, its institution, and its people.

To create is always to learn, to begin over, to begin at zero.

I directed an episode of 'Party of Five' toward the very end of that show. It was a great experience.

I'm not saying I want a film career because I think I'm too good for television. I'm simply saying I want more control over my life.

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.