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All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

Men cannot make Scripture conform to their lifestyle; they must make their lifestyle conform to Scripture.

In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?

I suppose what's unique about our presentation is the amount of Scripture that kids get.

The idea that all the words in Scripture are God's words in such a way that to disbelieve or disobey any word of Scripture is to disbelieve or disobey God.

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Damn description, it is always disgusting.

When I turned 18, I skipped my party to take my girlfriend on a road trip. It turned out to be an amazing birthday.

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

Scripture urges and warns us that whatever favors we may have obtained from the Lord, we have received them as a trust on condition that they should be applied to the common benefit of the church.

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.

When we reach the outer limit of what Scripture says, it is time to stop arguing and start worshipping.

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'

Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like.

Harold Ramis and I together did the ‘National Lampoon Show’ off Broadway, ‘Meatballs,’ ‘Stripes,’ ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Groundhog Day.’ He earned his keep on this planet. God bless him.