Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.

All false religions cut away parts of God’s revelation, add ideas of their own, and come out with various viewpoints that differ from God’s revelation in the Bible.

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's fate - but you can't want to make a film simply for the sake of it.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

I know everyone hates when I say this, they think it's a cliché, but if you don't feel good in the bathing suit you're not going to look good. Confidence is really important.

In the arts, foolhardiness is always harmful; even worse, however, is clumsiness.

Just write the best you can about the things that concern you most. I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

If you don't think God's love for the unlovable is amazing, go try to love someone who hates you for a day. See if that helps.

As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow... may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.