Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.

God is growing bitter, He envies man his mortality.

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence for no reason at all, for a lark.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

I knew then that I hadn't stopped believing in God. I'd just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might not, but I don't think it matters. Either way we're on our own.

Even Aristotle, master of pure reason, said: 'The friend of wisdom is also a friend of myth.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

Well tarnation you're a meanie pants aren't you?" ~Miss Mary~

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

Music says so much. Really specific but those are also real tonal things as well.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

We've got to have a deep, intimate relationship with the Father if we're going to lead like Jesus.

I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.