I don't go to the movies because they scare me. I don't like anything that is suspenseful, even pleasantly so.

Story has a mind of its own and tells things sometimes it might have preferred us not to know. Stories operate like dreams; both veil what is to be uncovered, neither is capable of the coverup.

I'm very moved and very excited. And it just seems to me here are houses and trees and streets that feel so different from New York. I feel very attached to London; I love it.

I'm not going to say it's laziness, but I'm not a grand creator of new characters.

Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself.

I dare say you believe I'm going to die. I bet you don't believe you're going to die. You know it, but you don't believe it. Imaginatively, I think we find it impossible to believe we don't exist.

As soon as you move through the hospital doors you've removed yourself from real life. From the world we know. It's an alien world. Just enter those gates and you are in alien territory.

Though the earth contains greater energy and mass than any single being, linked together, "people make the world go-round".

You might plan how you sleep but you can't plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planner, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer.

I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?

That’s the problem with you nearly immortal types, ” I said. “You couldn’t spot a pop culture reference if it skittered up and implanted an embryo down your esophagus.

the fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out—a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

People's view of cancer will change when they have their own relationship with cancer, which everyone will, at some point.

When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us.