Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.

...and it's ridiculous that anyone would praise a child for standing with arms spread out on a wooden cross, as if she were Jesus's dead sister wearing a checkerboard tablecloth.

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness, " she said, "only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous

The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

If our lives are easy, and if all we ever attempt for God is what we know we can handle, how will we ever experience His omnipotence in our lives?

(When asked who wore the pants in his house:) I do, and I also wash and iron them.

People aren't born racist.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Of the infinite variety of fruits which spring from the bosom of the earth, the trees of the wood are the greatest in dignity.

Most people marry their mother. I married my father.