The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.

Good is god, but better carries it.

Let the soul who is desirous of advancing in perfection hasten to My Sacred Heart.

Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.

Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.

I am so grateful for my beautiful life. I am cherished and loved. And I share my love and joy with everyone.

What is dishonestly got vanishes in profligacy.

... friends are such a mixed blessing.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

Love is not a business. It's not a transaction. It's not an exchange or something you get for doing something it's not a trade. It's a gift!