The simple point is that literature belongs to the world man constructs, not to the world he sees; to his home, not his environment.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

To learn to read is to light a fire

In my defence, I did like my ex until she cheated on me. I just thought the feeling was love.

I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

We've all gathered together, and whatever goes down is what goes down.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

I cannot imagine why we should be at the expense to furnish wit for succeeding ages, when the former have made no sort of provision for ours.

Cease thy counsel, for thy words fall into my ears as priceless as water into a seive.

Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war.