Judging by the the movie's enduring popularity, the message that stupidity is redemption is clearly what a lot of Americans want to hear.

Just as Freud couldn’t always be blamed for the Freudians, Bresson didn’t always feel obliged to behave like a Bressonian.

Is there any greater act then praying for all people from every nation?

Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind.

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.

I almost never shoot people.

I was wildly out of style when that television theme song suddenly pushed its way onto the Top Ten. It was certainly not the record company trying to make that happen.

life without love, is no life at all

Contemporary American children, if they are old enough to grasp the concept of Santa Claus by Thanksgiving, are able to see through it by December 15th.

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.