There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.

A good book isn't written, it's rewritten.

Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief?

At Gethsemane: "Jesus is subordinating His loudest desires to His deepest desires.

What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here, ' on the last wall of the universe.

she said, these dead petals, honey, brought me here

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

If you pretend you're completely mad, people believe it. The only thing I wanted when making the film was to have fun.

Not all cartoon humor is just about having bugged-out eyes and tongues flying out of people's heads.