Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.

In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

Black holes are where God divided by zero.

Can't figure women. Sometimes they're afraid of a spider, other times they're not afraid to stand right up to the devil.

He brought his forehead against mine and we breathed the same air, slowly to try and find our composure. But it was impossible for me as long as he’s so close to me. “You’re ruining me.�

There’s fear and violence under the surface. One always follows the other.

I'm a little lamb who's lost in the wood.

The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Friendships take work. Use disagreements as opportunity to come out better on the other side

The only thing I really wanted was the freedom to be able to get what I want on film. I’ve dealt with the MPAA since 1973, so I know how to renegotiate and rework.

Of course, without God, there is no value to life. That leads to immorality, that leads to sexual abuse, and there is no hope.