It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

Each day death corrodes what we call living, and life ceaselessly swallows our desire for the void.

Treat time and money as though they are the same by using both resourcefully.

. . . I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.

A man can never fill the longing for my one true God.

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

The victims of homicide are the only ones who carry the true secrets of humanity to the grave. The ones only God knows

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

I'm a man of my word.

The one thing that might have stopped San Bernardino, that might have stopped 9/11 would have been stricter controls on those who came here.

It's a combination of yes - making a movie about the characters - and then, also, budget.