Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone—‘I didn’t mean to startle her.

Step out of my sunlight.

...If there's one thing I'm well versed in it's my own good qualities.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

I've actually found the image of Silicon Valley as a hotbed of money-grubbing tech people to be pretty false, but maybe that's because the people I hang out with are all really engineers.

I'm not anti-gun or pro-gun, but if you put a gun in your hand, you feel different.

A goat's a goat. Whether you sauté or barbeque it, it's still a goat.

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Love is the only possession which we can carry with us beyond the grave.

We have the ability now to arrange global economic institutions so that poverty declines to a fraction of what it is now.