I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively.

We all seek that somewhere to which we belong and that somewhere is surely not here!

I want to love my living

I don't have very complete scripts for my films. I have a general outline and a character in my mind, and I make no notes until I find the character who's in my mind in reality.

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

I'm a firm believer that all this packaged stuff that Americans are buying up in gobs is making them fatter.

Creativity means you have to disappear, you have to allow God to be.