February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.

I never was a person who wanted a handout. I was a cafeteria worker. I'm not too proud to ask the Best Western manager to give me a job. I have cleaned homes.

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

I delight in what I fear.

The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward - that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls.

We eat the year away. We eat the spring and the summer and the fall. We wait for something to grow and then we eat it.

Compassion is the magic ingredient to an amazing life.

You Keep Looking at what you want but you can’t have it, and once you have it it will never be the same.

Risk is the clue that our dreams are both real and great.

Too happy would you be did ye but know your own advantages!

Kids have parents. Let the parents be responsible for the kids.

Know the subject; love the subject; like your students; know your students.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

Probably the hardest thing to do was the beginning of the movie ["300"], I think, when we were in Sparta and all that - just getting in the groove.