That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

...but as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.

Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case?

The Jesuits I know who have died and all their lives were great teachers, they're the least remembered people

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Because we allow handguns. When you know someone in the crowd might be packing a rod, it can't help but rush your timing.

As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction.

I worked with Adam Pally and he's hilarious and the king of improv!

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them?

Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.

Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.