The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

I think the world on the other side of fossil fuel is more local - the logic of sun and wind is diffuse and spread out, not concentrated like the logic of coal and oil.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

The ability to laugh heartily is the sign of a healthy soul.

I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.

We are not accustomed to thinking that God's will for us and our own inner dreams can coincide.

Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

It's that I wasn't suited to do the kind of comedy that these people were coming to hear - mainstream comedy.

The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

I do what I do because I love it.

And die with decency.