Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.

Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.

Water is so friendly when you have it on your palms, but so evil when they have you on theirs.

Change courage into main characters, fear into antagonists, and peace and safety into supporting characters. Don't hold anything back.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now ... only much much better.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

Should we say the self, once perceived, becomes the soul?