"I've always seen L.A. as a giant kind of laboratory for ideas in a caldron for concepts where you can try anything you want to and if it fizzles, so what, you try something else."

“Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.”

“The Libertarian position on immigration is to have, not open borders with no restrictions, but to have controlled borders that allow hard-working people to come into America to help raise their standard of living and improve the American economy.”

“When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time a book touched me by its feeling of freedom and open spaces, the way the poet spoke of the ocean by describing a drop of water in his hand. Walt Whitman was offering the world an open hand (now we call it democracy) and my 'Monument for Walt Whitman' became this open hand with mirrors, so you can see inside yourself.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 93, 'Quotes', 1990.

“Contrary to common belief, Christian fiction did not begin with Catherine Marshall, Janette Oke, or Frank Peretti.”

“Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.”

“With Climate Change as a Security Risk, WBGU has compiled a flagship report on an issue that quite rightly is rising rapidly up the international political agenda. The authors pull no punches on the likelihood of increasing tensions and conflicts in a climatically constrained world and spotlight places where possible conflicts may flare up in the 21st century unless climate change is checked. The report makes it clear that climate policy is preventative security policy.”

“Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.”

“My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on.”