How good it would be to make my own decisions

I believe stories have a will of their own, one that surpasses in volition that of their teller. In realms of Storytelling, stories control their bearers, and eventually, their hearers as well.

Both the mind and "presence" can work beautifully together, in the absence of ego.

As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all.

Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.

Truthfulness is godliness.

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

People want movies to be one thing or another; they want it be fact or fiction.

You have people who know you are competent enough to do your job and then you have the ones that just hover around.

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from hosts and myths.

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.