Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Don’t call me babe. I’m not a floozy. Or a freaking talking pig.

Now. Is this life or not?I be so calm.If she come, I be happy. If she don’t, I be content.And then I figure this the lesson I was suppose to learn.

If peace is to come to earth through change in man's environment, instead of through change in man himself, it will never come. -- Philip Mauro in "The Number of Man the Climax of Civilization

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.

I've always said that I think females make the best chefs anywhere in the world.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

I like the days when all the filmmakers had was a film roll, a camera and a gangster. The Mack Sennett comedies were all like that. They'd create little teams to go out and shoot films.

I want to question what the outside is and who defines it. I often find those that are considered to be on the outside extremely inspiring.

Spirituality is that place where the utterly intimate and the vastly infinite meet.

Love laughs at locksmiths.