The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

If you love someone, they leave you. But if you don't love someone, they leave you, too. So your choice isn't between loving and losing but only between loving and not loving.

The strongest presence is so often an absence.

For so long I have lived on the edge of an invisible world. Sometimes I feel like the scattered debris left over after the personality has fallen out of the sky.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former.

Then going out on the ice usually about 15 minutes before and certain things I would do for the different races, aspects that you run through your mind.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

Do not forget, some give little, and it is much for them, others give all, and it costs them no effort; who then has given most?

In solitude all great things are born.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

I find it peculiar when people scoff at one bold idea, and yet they'll then turn over and watch a man travel through time in a police phone box.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.