That was his favorite thing about books—they took you off to other people’s lives an’ places, but you could still set in your own chair by th’oil heater, warm as a mouse in a churn.

I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

It is the destiny of things real to destroy those that are artifice.

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.

I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood.

I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-- So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.

... women are the pivot round which the world turns.

You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

If I actively practice gratitude, I am able to keep myself grounded in the high times and lift myself up in the low times.