...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.

I did not grow up in poverty. But I did grow up with a poor boy's sense of longing, in my case not for what my family had never had, but for what we had had and lost.

It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.

Our relationship could now thrive only in my head, and to discuss it with a mother intent—admittedly in my own best interest—on challenging it with reality might do it irreparable harm.

one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

I waited for each film to become important for me. If I had no ideas for a film, I didn't do a film. So I made not that many films for fifty-four years of working.

... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.

Spirituality has played an amazing part. Its been paramount in my life.

To live without you, only that would be torture." "A day alone, only that would be death.

Style is about confidence. That's the real beauty.

Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.

It is He who manifests as both matter and consciousness. There is no place where God is not. In every atom, in every living being He alone is present.

I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.

Economic theology is the opiate of the middle classes.