The moderns do not realize modernity.

Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.

Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.

I don't need a church to tell me I'm wrong where I already know I'm wrong; I need a Church to tell me I'm wrong where I think I'm right

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.

With our hands, we reach for things we shouldn't have and we grasp what isn't ours. The way I have always reached for you.

I can tell about one who didn't win. And it didn't matter.Because his destiny was battle, Not the victory. He was born to travel, Not to find destination. He lived to live, Not to make a home.

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

The meaning of existence is that you have simply existed at all.

My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.

Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.

Knowing what to do is very, very different than actually doing it.

Life is lived on the inside. What's outside doesn't matter.

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.