A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

I also had a mistaken attitude towards certain comrades.

If you see the blood, then there's an easy association of the violence. The violence that happens when there isn't blood is actually much more subversive and unsettling.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

If money or military might would change that part of the world... we would have done it by now. Enough is enough.

My father was a miner and he worked down a mine.

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

Pro basketball is a very mercenary endeavor.

I played team sports, but I never felt like I fitted in that well, so this allowed me to be part of a community but to do it in my own way.