I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.

I remember New York in the '80s as a place with vacant lots that would eventually give over to nature. Weeds would grow up, squirrels would move in. That entropy is gone now. It's too expensive to let a vacant lot go natural.

I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.

Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.

My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.

I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

I'd much rather go to a Banksy art show than a Moby art show. My art is painfully naive.