Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

Is the writer cruel that makes his characters suffer only to bring them to triumph or tragedy in the end?

When things go wrong, just do your best to make it through the day and you'll be okay in a short time.

I touched the wall and all my dreams, hopes and ambitions basically coalesced into one moment.

To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form.

I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

Still, when it looked like the sun wasn't going to shine anymore, God put a rainbow in the clouds.

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

Cutting edges are always a little rough.

Americans are not terribly intelligent people. They need to read important things several times.