Her only flair is in her nostrils.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

If I never saw another fistfight or car chase or Doberman attack, I wouldn't have any feeling of loss. And that goes for Rottweilers, too.

The critical task is necessarily comparative, and younger people do not truly know what is new

When a picture can't make it on its own, the producers pull in a 'controversial' message - the way a couple whose marriage is falling apart decide to have a baby.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

If there is any test that can be applied to movies, it's that the good ones never make you feel virtuous.

Protagonists are always loners, almost by definition.

Sometimes, just be. Do not think or worry, do not get angry under stress. Just pray and keep your faith in the Lord. Keep patience and see how well things will work out for you!

In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.

A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Only when he voluntarily chooses that which he inexorably must do, has man any free will at all.

There is a time in science when it's too early to attack a problem. The stuff has to bubble a bit more and you have to be able to have the foundation on which to stand.

Long before I had ever seen a ritualistic service I became a Ritualist.

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.