And for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute.

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.

Permit your dreams to see the daylight.

You learned this, ” Kabsal said, lifting up her drawing of Jasnah, “from a book.”“Er…yes?”He looked back at the picture. “I need to read more.

To abolish fear correctly is to nurture law and order.

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.