It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

You take unacceptable risk, you have to be prepared to face the consequence.

A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.

There is no longer a Christian mind.

I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that capital has to give from the presidency down.

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

We've seen so many films now, that you have to be on par with the best films that have preceded you. You just can't make any movie and it will be good

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

Who are taking to the witch burning Saturday night?

Cherish that which is in you and shut out that which is without, for much knowledge is a curse.