I was 21 in 1968 so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies in the West anyway would have seemed absurd in 1968.

The sun the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

What society doesn't realize is that in the past ordinary people respected learning. They respected books and they don't now or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason these constraints have largely disappeared.

During the Great Depression when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Conjugal love or the friendship of spouses can persist even after sexual desires have weakened withered and disappeared.

After 1980 you never heard reference to space again. Surface the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

In places where this beauty has already disappeared we will reconstruct it.