I could never acceptlife as it was, I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts, tenuous magic partsopen for theasking.

(the whole world is at thethroat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.

a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.

the people are the biggesthorror show on earth, have been forcenturies.

I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of lifebefore lifedies.

Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

Don't you go to the movies?""Mostly just to eat popcorn in the dark.

The first person to measure the rate of acceleration of a free falling body was Father Giambattista Riccioli.

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

If you get made fun of working at Pier One Imports, you can't pelt them with poop.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

The worst thing you can do is nothing.

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.