In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance.

You’re telling stories again. You have the disease of telling stories, Roland.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

Sophia Loren plays peasants. I play ladies.

There are so many things in this life that I want to do and I can't do them all.

The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point you have to deal with entitlements.

I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.

My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'