The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school.

I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.

Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

Let me just say it out loud so we can laugh together: You're going to find Johnny Depp, take him back to Vahalal, and put him in a zoo?

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

If we aren't willing to change, we aren't willing to unconditionally love.

All we can go on is what we think, how we see the world. If you can't trust your own mind what can you trust?

We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I want to make people laugh.

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

America preaches integration and practices segregation.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.