For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God.
I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.
It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.
The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by any other science.
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work.
In real life you are doomed if you believe in youth and money, but not here in Hollywood. Nothing is what it seems.
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
I was born in 1962, and it seems that throughout my entire life the world has demanded peace but maintained conflict.
Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
I think just because life is hard, it does seem fun to have a break and laugh about things, so I think in the end, my instincts go there.
Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.
All my life I've been rowing against the tide. What can I do? It seems I was born that way.
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem as important as they were.
Man - life in general - seems irrelevant to the workings of the universe: a mere smudge of water, grease, and carbon on a pinpoint planet circling a star of no special consequence.
