I was thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we can just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we got something here.

Come to think of it, Pasadena's as good a place to die as any.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

In order to forgive an offender, we have first to forgive ourselves, then we can forgive them.In this way we are nothelpless victims anymore, we regain our power, acting from our peaceful placeof power.

Where beams of imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do all things possible to make it to heaven!

I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.

The two-word definition of sustainability is 'one planet.'

This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Men may be spoiled by education, even as they are spoiled by illiteracy. Education is the preparation of the mind for future work, hence men should be educated with special reference to the work.

We get to choose who we love, and that includes God, and he loves us back.