My second hit was a flop.

Are you worthy of realizing your dream? If you said yes, there is no short cut. You're going to encounter setback after setback until you realize your dream.

The stars glittered in the sky and as the number of people at the party grew there were merging conversations and laughter and bodies moving in outlines around the kegs of beer in a curtsy of youth.

In short, you had that particular ability which I never had: the ability to be alive.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something - something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it.

I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.

We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life.

Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two.