Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?

Sanity is a handicap and liability if you're living in a mad world.

The abundant life Jesus spoke of isn't opposed to the material, but it consists of more than just the material.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.

Don't get sick, and if you do get sick, die quickly.

The emotional state that leads to achievements resembles that of a worshiper or the lover.

Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.