I can tell the difference between the acts of a man and the acts of God. That's why I still believe. I could always tell the difference.

My faith survived because I realized God didn't want this for us, He never had. I'm passionately looking forward to a new Heaven and Earth where only good exists once more.

So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with literature.

Christ's father let him die on that cross. I understand why he done it. But Christ never had no granny like me.

Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it.

As our dreams make evident, the psyche's own language is that of image, and not idea.

Photography and painting, all of that fed into my directing eventually.

I always think anything is possible.

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

People just want to know something, anything. It's all the stuff you never want to talk about, the private stuff.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.