A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

Be careful what you say for you can never take back the poison you threw

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

Each person's heart breaks in it's own way. Every cure will be different, but there are some things we all need. Before anything else, we need to feel safe.

Everywhere I go, I kind of half stumble, half stomp. If there’s a balcony within a hundred feet of me at any given time, I am on it— smoking a Marlboro light 100 and complaining about something.

The Birds could be the most terrifying motion picture I have ever made.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

In economic life competition is never completely lacking, but hardly ever is it perfect.

Alas! it is a fearful thing To feel another's guilt!

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

You know, 'Viggo' is a pretty dorky name in Denmark. It's like 'Oswald' or something. It's a very old Scandinavian name, at least 1,000 years old.