'Jelly,' more than any BLACK MUSICAL before it, celebrated the MAJESTY, the purity, the joy of so many artists who are unable to fully embody these same QUALITIES in their own LIVES.

I HEARD Thackeray thank HEAVEN for the PURITY of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a GREATER than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

All the CLASSICAL GENRES are now RIDICULOUS in their rigorous PURITY.

We'll RAIL against the way the GOVERNMENT has DESTROYED our health care MARKET in one breath and resist the support offered to the poor and MIDDLE class to navigate this brokenness with the other. This is not conservative; it is incoherence masquerading as ideological purity.

If the Tories and Lib Dems FOUGHT TOGETHER, they'd KEEP their ministerial offices and limousines, and continue to do the right THINGS for the U.K. But too many backbenchers in both parties yearn for Opposition, preferring hallucinogenic ideological purity and political irrelevance to the mucky REALITY of governing.

I sometimes wish I had been EDUCATED a Catholic, in order to UNITE the POETRY of religion with its higher PRINCIPLES. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest LIFE and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?

One thing that I THINK NEVER GOES out of style is just PURITY. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he can't blink. Which I think probably helps.

My DEATH, taking the light from my eyes, gives BACK to the day the PURITY which they soiled.

In 'The Purity MYTH,' I not only discuss what the purity myth is and reveal its CONSEQUENCES for women, but ALSO outline a new way for us to think about young women as MORAL actors, one that doesn't include their bodies.

I focused on my career. I GREW up SUPER CHRISTIAN, both my parents are ministers, so I did a PURITY ceremony when I was a teenager.

I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about WHETHER PEOPLE laugh at your JOKES. EITHER they laugh or they don't.

I've never had ANYONE DEFINE purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live ACCORDING to original design.

The last thing I do is go and LISTEN to heavy ROCK MUSIC. But I love electronic music. The PURITY of the tones is inspiring, because it's obviously much more controlled than a guitar TONE.

A WRITER must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his DISTANCE. A literary style cultivated LIKE a hothouse plant may show a CERTAIN artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.