Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

Art is so often better at theology than theology is.

Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.

Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.

We should be suspicious when God's call conforms so neatly to our own inclinations.

I don't think that someone who does not speak the original language can ever expect to produce a real translation.

I honestly don’t know whether I am describing something essential about the way we know God or merely my own weakness of mind.

I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond.

I'm drawn to this range, that's for sure, but I suppose the thing that most appeals to me about Mandelstam is the sense you get from every poem that everything - the poet's very soul - is at stake.

Wonder is the precondition for all wisdom.

Humans get used to even if they are in the hell.

Happiness doesn't just flow from success

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.

I trust my arm as much as I trust my legs.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

Why was I born, if just to live in misery

The only people who don't have problems are in a cemetery.

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.