I couldn't help thinking how well Cain had prospered after killing his brother: he founded the first city--and, although we don't like to talk about it all that much, we are all his children.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower intestine.' I'd put that on a T-shirt but probably Mark Twain already said it.

Her heart broke. Because of sorrow. Because of guilt. Because of repressed dreams, visions and fantasies. Because almost nothing in her life had gone as she'd hoped.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.