God was dead. Let Him rest in peace. Now, finally, the earth was hers with no taint of Heaven.

Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world - cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet - the cat chooses to sit on your lap?

Nature was taking back what had once been hers.

We are one another’s angels.

The exhilarating alignment of the heavens was sufficiently rare that she recognized her moment of joy, thus making the joy that much more potent.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

Music heals the soul, we kneel to the fallen.

In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.

Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life." Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.

Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?

Happens to me all the time...People are always underestimating my dumbness.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.