Every one regards his duty as a troublesome master from whom he would like to be free.

My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.

a church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

The perfection of a thing consists in its essence; there are perfect criminals, as there are men of perfect probity.

Travel teaches as much as a teacher.

If we continually walk with God, if He lives in us and we in Him, then every mountain according to the Word of God will melt before us

The supreme artist lives as closely as possible to replicating the perfect dream, with life unfolding in a manner that a person could never conceive or direct.

'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.' Big, big, big smash for me. My birth of the love of cinema was born with 'Close Encounters' and '2001.' Those sci-fi movies I saw when I was a little kid.

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

When I was a kid, I always envisioned myself as performing, as being in that business. It was all that I knew, so it's kind of like I'm just following in the family tradition.

One only needs to read twentieth-century history to see that it has been the climax of human madness, if it's measured in terms of human violence inflicted on other humans.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Life for the unhappy is an endless search for 'the good parent,' one who will truly love him instead of making him afraid.