Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.

When all else is lost and gone forever, there is yearning. Only desire trumps time.

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

A teacher will alter the balance of power by actually lifting a person into other states of mind. In those states of mind the teaching will take place in non-verbal ways through direct experience.

Without my Savior, I am nothing.

I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.

What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

People have been trained to criticize, insult, and otherwise communicate in ways that create distance among people.

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.

I make more movies than I see.