Trees, their incremental gymnastics and noisy silence, are another wonder of Outside to me.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.

Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I've stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book.

Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Every single time you crossed over for me and met me on my side. I realize now, I don't think I ever met you in the middle. And I don't think I ever once said that you for that.

Then I’ll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort.

Today, religion is systematized, formalized group worship. It’s packaged. We don’t live the divine any longer, we only hear or read about it.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

If music's a political place, I'm out.

Chess is a sport. The main object in the game of chess remains the achievement of victory.

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.