Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet.

It's like algebra, that's all. I just have to figure it out, step by step.

This was in the good old days, when monsters were fantasy.

An obstacle is nothing but a temporary obstruction waiting to be tackled.

Our pleasures are not material pleasures, but symbols of pleasure – attractively packaged but inferior in content.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

My obligation is to focus on the priorities of classroom instruction, parental involvement and student safety, targeting student performance and eliminating unnecessary administrative costs.

The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.

Nothing shakes my opinion of a book. Nothing -- nothing. Only perhaps if it's the book of a young person -- or of a friend -- no, even so, I think myself infallible.