An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Like the sun, touch someone with the warmth of your kindness.

Cynicism is proof of our intimacy issues with the Divine.

If I loved you for no reasons I will hate you for more reasons

Join the army and see the next world.

Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles.

Pray to yourself, because I'm in your self and you're in My self. We are one Spirit, saith the Lord.

I'm a supporter of embryonic stem cell research. I do think there are very important moral and also religious questions at stake in the debate over embryonic stem cell research.

Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.