There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

Don't make me sit through reality.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway, " the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries.

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales.

I love to both give and receive very old books.

I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

Photography today is so accurate and so good that it's really so much easier just to take photographs and work from them.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

I don't want to make a movie for 100,000 fans that nobody else in the world sees, because I don't think that's good for the character.