Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

In Iraq, interpreters were ten times more likely to be killed than were U.S. troops.

They teach you, as children, that you might go to heaven. They never teach you that heaven might come to you.

When my anxiety is really bad, the fast beating of my heart makes my body feel like it rocks back and forth.

An English university is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protection after they have been . hunted out of every corner of the world.

The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems apart from all other creatures. How to Know God.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

The wall around the window does not create two worlds.

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long.

I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.