I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.

Only someone who is well prepared has the opportunity to improvise.

We make each other alive; it doesn’t make a difference if it hurts.

Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer.

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

Let's not let our fear of dementia deepen our fear of dementia.

The mail service has been excellent out here, and in my opinion this is all that the Air Force has accomplished during the war.

Old Zen is the way of nothingness, the way of having a good time.

Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Unless the gentle inherit the earth, / There will be no earth.

A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.

Spirituality is a flower with a thousand petals: every act, every thought, every talk, every movement of our heart is a part of it.

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.