By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.

A teacher can only lead you to the threshold of your own mind.

To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm