Internet, " she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.

What differentiates humans from all other creatures is the deep and unquenching desire to be appreciated.

Do you know the story?No, Finn, but I have a feeling you're going to tell me.

Freedom works.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.