The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

True friends chop the onions and cry together.

Sometimes the wisdom of the elderly is equivalent to that of a child.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible

When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time.

Nobody actually played tennis in my family.

To love is to know the sacrifices which eternity exacts from life.

Don't ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.