I was grateful to Ben the way you are grateful to someone who is unexpectedly kind.

I wanted blood to signify life, not death.

Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.

If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

Marriage is wonderful.

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth

Our society doesn't want to help girls like that [in Black Snake Moan]. They just want to use them.

We're accepted as long as we conform to what we are expected to be, and I'm sure that's not any different for anyone else.

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God.

I was so bad. Out of control. So glad I turned out to be a nice guy.