Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

The thing of course, is to make yourself alive. Most people remain all of their lives in a stupor.

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass, make love, work when they have to, bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

There's no way to be a Christian at home by yourself.

Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must strictly speaking at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back.

I am a Muslim Arab, in my actions oriented very to the left, in my convictions.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

I think bravery means a different thing to everyone.

I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone.

In my career, I have played a gangster, an ex cop, a journalist and a film director. Yet, the label of a serial kisser refuses to leave me.

The most wretched have yet hope.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.