Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.
I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
None of my characters are rich or famous, and the situations they find themselves in could happen to anyone.
I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
As I read the New Testament, I find only one path to salvation - the path of an informed faith in Jesus Christ.
I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.
And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.
The space and light up there in Norfolk is wonderfully peaceful. I find myself doing funny things like gardening, and cooking, which I rarely do in London.
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
I do find comedy difficult. I don't know why. Maybe I think about it too much. There's a tremendous amount of pressure to be funny.
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
I think the first rule of comedy is that it has to be funny and I find a lot of the broad comedy which is sent to me, painfully unfunny.
Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.
A Christian without a God who hears them? That's not a place that one who truly serves Christ wants to find themselves.
There are some people who are always on the run, so much so that they find it hard to fit in the study of God's word.
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.
