It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

At 200 pounds, with a 17-inch neck, a resting pulse of 78, a bench press of 200 pounds, I was very much indeed a normal, All-American male. I carried my sickness within.

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

I'm not going to read reviews like, "I have to do these things." Any good criticism makes you think about your own films and about cinema in general.

To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

I cannot disobey something which I do not know and the reality of which I have the right to deny.