I like reality. It tastes like bread.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

Rock It, Read It.

What about regular professionals, who just want to do what they do as well as they can?

We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

Southcliffe is an anthem to ordinary peoples ability to reinvent themselves in the face of ultimate darkness.

To be a teacher is my greatest work of art.

It's easy to shortcut when you get busy explaining the why's of the world, but it's very important to try.

Power does not reside in institutions, not even the state or large corporations. It is located in the networks that structure society.

One principal characteristic of vice in the present age is the contempt of fame.

If you look round Hollywood there's no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.