A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

He (Abraham Lincoln) is one of the few men in history, our own history and all history, whose religion was great enough to bridge the gulfs between the sects, to encompass us all.

Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .

I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.

Professionally, I don’t necessarily have to adhere to a certain dress code. However, I think that comfort is crucial. Otherwise, you won’t be able to have fun and express yourself.

Movies are not a growth business.

Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.