We might miss the days of being unreachable.

When I'm in pain I want everyone I love on the island with me, sitting around the fire, getting drunk on coconut milk, banging out a plan.

I think in the corridors of power these dangerous kinds of orders are issued in a much more vague way, passed down two or three levels of command before they're given to the assassin.

Men write Bibles. God doesn't. God writes in stars and worlds and seasons and Hudson Rivers and beautiful women. Creation is the good book.

If you believe it, it is.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it.

I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'

I don't believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God's way of communicating with us.