it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

Your Potential can far exceed your expectations

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

I think I've done 200 plays and 125 movies, so I've been very lucky to have made a living at acting.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

I'm talking about living life to its fullest.

Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards, And seal the hushed Casket of my Soul.

Every god is a jealous god after the breakdown of the bicameral mind.

I have this identity for myself as a writer and the only thing that can happen is that I chip away from it.

The job of art is to turn time into things.