Evangelical Christians are not sincere. It is all about making money.

North Korea and evangelical empires have the same principle of leadership: nepotism to the nth degree. You may not get the call, but you inherit the mailing list.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

There is nothing more profane than the image of an atheist with tears in his eyes conducting the glory and passion of Handel's Messiah.

Of course as soon as I say something or write it that sounds like I believe it, and really I'm never entirely sure.

I do think evangelicals have been under attack.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

I know enough about human nature to know that people generally prefer to find the most corrupt way of doing things possible, given enough incentive.

...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober. How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

Nobody is strong 100 percent of the time, or falling apart 100 percent of the time; sometimes you're doing both at once.

There's nothing in your life you can't learn from, if you respond with the right attitude.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.