Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for the training...

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.

Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.

Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

Last night you left me and sleptyour own deep sleep. Tonight you turnand turn. I say, ‘You and I will be togethertill the universe dissolves.’You mumble back things you thought ofwhen you were drunk.

The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.

It costs nothing to dream and everything not to

I can remember walking on the moon.

Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all.

I think I am very mainstream - I'm committed to good works in my life.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.