I love the silent hour of night, For blissful dreams may then arise, Revealing to my charmed sightWhat may not bless my waking eyes.

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm in the real world all rests on perseverance.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Give yourself completely to the act of listening. Beyond the sounds there is something greater, a sacredness that cannot be understood through thought.

I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.

And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

Let us leave tomorrow's trouble for the One who bore our troubles on the cross.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.