When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

All my roots are still in the prarie country of the Middle West.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

There is a beauty that arises from withholding judgment and evading comparison, a grace in not demanding consensus.

For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.

You've got to be a believer in what you do.

Whoever has gratitude will be given more, and he or she will have an abundance. Whoever does not have gratitude, even what he or she has will be taken from him or her.

I advocate the abolition of all religions, without setting up anything new of the kind.

It's believable because great things don't happen without hard work

We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.