But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, except there's still this sound you can't hear.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I was a coward. I went to the war.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

I hated him for making me stop hating him

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.I can look at things I never looked at. I can attach faces to grief and love and pity and God. I can be brave. I can make myself feel again.

Zapped while zipping.

Stories can save us.

Stories are for joining the past to the future.

What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.

Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy.

Excuses

As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself.

I think we do have a better understanding now of how moral thought and discourse function.

It's not surprising that you wouldn't see that side of me on television, but in real life I find the world to be quite a funny place.

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices

It was actually, 'Where ever there is television, there is poor old shagged out Tom Baker running across the rocks and punting down the river.'

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.