The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened sad and angry and they rallied around a President who at the time showed impressive certitude and calm.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

Mexico takes a hard line on immigration demanding that visitors to her shores enter lawfully and show her respect during their stay.

We are so accustomed to think of religion as a thing between individual men and God that we can hardly enter into the idea of a religion in which a whole nation in its national organisation appears as the religious unit.

I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.

My political ideas and things like that even my religion I try to keep close to me because it's a personal thing and I don't shove it down people's throats. I don't condemn any artist that wants to do that like the Baldwins. That's their choice. But in my world I'm just an entertainer.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears Build up your own perfect structure of truth and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race religion or political views that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.

Religion is not a department of life it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Give yourself entirely to God enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

I really always expected to somebody to make me happy and I don't think you can really enter into a relationship until you are happy.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

First and foremost I am a commercial writer and I hope to entertain people. But having said that I'm in love with the relationship between humans and dogs and the more I learned about what our military working dogs are doing I wanted to at least share with people what an important role these animals have in all our lives.