As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

Does anyone know how to start a fire?"Blank stares. "So we can't start a fire, " [Jamie] said. "We can't fly. We can't create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.

The good go for the better to come.

Oh, how magical it will be to have winter come every year.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

I thought a parent's job was to tell their children not to go into acting as a profession!

All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and the monsters lurking underneath.

You know, a low budget, you have to work harder. You have to plan well; you don't have much time to rehearse.

It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.

The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.

Not everyone who is enlightened by an angel knows that he is enlightened by him.