By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.

If you don't know what to do, do what you know and soon, what you're supposed to do will feel more appealing.

Do not allow your daughters to be taught letters by a man, though he be a St. Paul or St. Francis of Assissium. The saints are in Heaven.

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

The ultimate for me would be to do a feature that didn't require any narrative structure.

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!

The only way to end war is communication between people.