The American belief machine apparently has a fail-safe component. Nothing shuts it down.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

True believers aren't about to be seduced by the facts.

Science not only hasn't found God, it isn't even looking for him.

I'll long remember the crestfallen look of a pious student when I told him the faculty of a divinity school he planned to attend included a large number of avowed atheists.

When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

The revelations of God can come to you in a state of wakefulness or in sleep

He leaned his forehead against hers. “Tell me you want this.

Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

You learn more discipline in the theatre than you do in movies or TV. You're on stage every night and you have to sustain your energy level tor several hours.

The source of the terror in Lebanon as in Iraq is to be found in the Koran and in the despotisms of the Arab Middle East.

We live alone, we die alone. Everything else is just an illusion.

Life without music is unthinkable. Life without music is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace.

Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover its meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons.

There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.

There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.