Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.

Rationality is the master lifehack which distinguishes which other lifehacks to use.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

It's a hard world, neighbors, if a man's oath must be his master.

What I like most about directing is creating a world more so than anything. To me, the music is the wrapping paper on that world.

It's most presumptuous to believe we already know all the answers and will never get any more big surprises.

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you an be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration.