Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.

My dad put up a great hoop in our front yard in our driveway. I was in Oregon, so I had to be out there in the rain. We didn't always have a gym to go to.

The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.

It's always a challenge to top what I have done in the past.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced.

If you can find true contentment, it will last forever.

People are always asking me to sign my old canvases. It's ridiculous!

You can't succeed unless you're willing to risk failure

I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.