If you’re really looking for answers, look past me. But if you’re interested in how I got to where I am, I will be as honest as possible.

It always cracks me up when people try to impress God, because people don't have to impress God. He's already knocked out by you.

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

The Bible is not a book for the faint of heart -- it is a book full of all the greed and glory and violence and tenderness and sex and betrayal that befits mankind. It is not the collection of pretty little anecdotes mouthed by pious little church mice -- it does not so much nibble at our shoe leather as it cuts to the heart and splits the marrow from the bone. It does not give us answers fitted to our small-minded questions, but truth that goes beyond what we even know to ask.

The only man I envy is the man who has not yet been to Africa- for he has so much to look forward to.

Good taste has everything to do with being cultured and being refined, and if art has to do with anything, it has to do with being human.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.