Which road, which road did you takeThat brought you here at last?No road, no road did I take.I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.

Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy.

False ideals cannot be shattered by criticism. Right ideals must take up the battle against them.

Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.

Happiness is... the grace of being permitted to unfold... all the spiritual powers planted within us.

Magnify the divine mystery and the holiness of mankind.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not believe, no explanation is possible.

. . . failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

Everything in this world is primarily a matter of morals, and only very much later one of politics.

I don’t trust the answers or the people who give me the answers. I believe in dirt and bone and flowers and fresh pasta and salsa cruda and red wine. I don’t believe in white wine

It was. It will never be again. Remember.

Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

It's been amazing to touch people's lives.

Make sure you have a vice president in charge of your revolution, to engender ferment among your more conventional colleagues.

My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

Better than sweet tea on a veranda. I want to live at Belmont!

I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

Working with HBO was an opportunity to experience creative freedom and 'long-form development' that filmmakers didn't have a chance to do before the emergence of shows like 'The Sopranos.'