Almost every important choice in our lives is really just an expression of hope.

True freedom is tolerant. It gives people the right to live and think in new ways.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

Walking is easy ... but it requires faith to find the right path.

If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good.

Many physicists these days sound like the Delphic oracle - with equations.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Life is dangerous. That's what makes it interesting.

Your unwillingness to change to my view point is purely on the justifiable basis that you have your own strongly held beliefs about important life issues.

All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed that was not of man's own contriving.

Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

You will only sacrifice when you passionately believe in the outcome.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around.

In this life you sometimes have to choose between pleasing God and pleasing man. - In the long run, it's better to please God - he's more apt to remember.

I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist.

A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost

I knew Dionysus must've filled it out, because he stubbornly insisted on getting my name wrong: Dear _______Peter Johnson__________.