For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.

For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.

We would – or at least we should – take upon ourselves the ultimate task of our poet: to seek the face of God.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

What we are about to have here is a holy water smack down!

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered it is something moulded.

My doom is, I love thee still. Let no man dream but that I love thee still.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

Rhinos are just fat unicorns. If we'd give them the time and attention they deserve, as well as a diet: They'd reveal their majestic ways

I like smaller films better. I don't know why. I think it's the intimacy and there's not this avalanche. It is an avalanche, but it's really myopic. It's really small.

Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks.

Dude, got eyes? I'm collecting evidence." [...] "In Ziploc bags." "I think they're Glad." "They look impartial to me.

I don't see this as Marty [St. Louis] replacing me. I see this as Marty getting the opportunity he deserves.

I photograph like a documentarian, but I print like a painter