Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

The world is only as small as your mind makes it.

The moment you try so hard to forget becomes your sharpest memory.-Tara

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

It's always cool to meet people who can do things that you have no capacity to do.

With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.

Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.

Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.

Black people are the most talented people in the world.

I'm a child who was abused. I know the difference. I clearly know the difference. The whipping for correction and then their child abuse.