... For all our alarm, it is clear that the religious right is responding to a real hunger in our society... a deep-seated yearning for stable values... When conservative Christian groups talk of failures in our educational system, the erosion of our moral standards, and the waste of young lives, they are addressing real and legitimate concerns... Among secularists, the aversion toward discussion of moral values, let alone religion, can reach absurd extremes.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

You know, you throw rocks in the lake and scientists will tell you you're raising the level of the lake, but all you get to see is the ripple.

If there is a reason to believe in God, it would be the Havana Leaf.

Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.

I think if you're feeling great about where you are, everything that led up to it had to be terrific.

Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show.