No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

...China has announced that...it will hold the beach volleyball contest at the site of the 1989 massacre. Even Hitler didn't have the chutzpah to stage the 100-yard dash at Dachau.

When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.

Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.

After a while, when she has forgotten him a little, when she realizes that her life and her are more to her than any man, she will tell me about it.

My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.

I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

I've managed to include only enough historical detail to give the "flavor" of the time period while keeping the characters and story focal.

Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

Some people stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.