Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

Everything is a symbol of something, it seems, until proven otherwise.

The real reason for a quest is always self-knowledge.

The difference between being Achilles and almost being Achilles is the difference between living and dying.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

Don't wait for writers to be dead to be read; the living ones can use the money.

Whenever people eat or drink together, it's communion.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things—flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.

The real reason for quest is always self-knowledge.

Jesus Himself was the first missionary . . .He pledged His followers to be missionaries too!

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

I knew it was all or nothing.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Love does not analyze its object.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

My photographs recall the memories of the human race.

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

I think the emotional toolbox I have is healthy for an actor, as far as the intensity of emotions go. It's other things I have to hone. I can swim in that comfortably.