What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.

If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe.

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?Juniper: I can't be bothered.

The energy that is necessary for us to achieve the goal is spent on meaningless anxiety

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.

Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

On the other hand, you get other films that are spread over a much longer period of time and it's entirely exhausting. But there's always light at the end of the tunnel with a film.

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.