To be on the wire is life. The rest is waiting.

Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveler, who takes a rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way

When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

The best way to economize time is to 'lose' half an hour each day attending Holy Mass.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

The knowledge that there is a part of the psychic functions that are out of conscious reach, we did not need to wait for Freud to know this!

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.