"If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death."

"One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer."

"Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence."

"I try and reduce myself to an almost blank slate and hope to God that I am creative."

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?"

"Have thy tools ready. God will find thee work."

"England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses."

"Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness."