It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

Everybody is damaged goods. Everybody got bumps and dents, ja? But sometimes two people fit together, and the bumps go into the dents, and you have a whole thing like a potato.

Mind you, Thunder Bay has a lot of outskirts. It's actually two cities melded together, so in a sense it has twice as many outskirts as other places. It's understandable that we got lost....

I do not need to grow up or train in the gym in order to beat the devil, when I know that my God can beat him for me.

Fundamentalism of any kind, be it religious, atheistic, political or educational, is the greatest threat to human excellence – it is a threat to progress – it is a threat to greatness.

He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.

I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya.

There is no more fundamental axiom of American freedom than the familiar statement: In a free country we punish men for the crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have.

With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.