Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

Academia is the death of cinema. It is the very opposite of passion. Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

The sky grew darker, painted blue on blue, one stroke at a time, into deeper and deeper shades of night.

It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!

We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

What is important is to win.

You have to know how to disappear.

There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.

I suppose if I was to have to pick a few, Ursula LeGuin would have to top the list. It was while reading her work that I decided I wanted to be an author.

If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.