The division between art and deviousness and crime is sometimes as thin as a cigarette paper.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

This isn't just a war over land, it's a war about God. And Alfred...is Christ's servant...

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

What's amazing when you get up and do something is what God does in your life. We just have to get up and do something.

Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.

Living radical isn't about where you live - it's about how you love.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color don't make money.

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

I just love leopard print.