"When you get immersed in whatever you're writing, the world does suddenly get so filtered through what you're writing. And then of course what you're writing then filters the world right back."

“True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice.”

“It's so easy today to get swept up in celebrity fixation and materialism and searching for some validation outside of yourself when we know it's really found within and through meaningful connections with other people.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's interesting to me that killing damages the image of God when it's done by a person, but it doesn't damage it when it's done by the state.”

Source : "Religious Reflections on the Death Penalty". Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life in Washington, D.C., www.pewforum.org. June 5, 2001.

“Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’”

“I really think if you take away a character's obstacles then there's no comedy.”

Source : "'The Big Bang Theory': Kunal Nayyar Talks Raj's New Confidence" by Lesley Goldber, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

“We called Pete Rose and Larry Bowa the soup spoons, because they were always stirring things up. Twenty years later, nothing's changed.”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”

“My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.”