Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts.

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Alex had cooked, and coaxed, and helped Mark form borders around the shapeless days. Alex had given meaning to the word "servant".

Our task is to carry the Lord's peace into every situation, into every duty.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

I was thinking...""We know, " Pedro said, "It was like sitting next to a pressure cooker

His eyes touched lightly, and passed on.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

It was typical of the American to identify the one unfinished strand.

Mark felt eyes on him as tight as a sniper's aim.

There is absolutely no point in comparing ourselves to others. Everyone brings to the world exactly what they are meant to bring, and in doing so touches exactly who they are meant to touch.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

When you get deep ecologists who are philosophers, and they drive cars and take newspapers and don't grow their own vegetables, in fact they're not deep ecologists - they're my enemies.

The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

You're not really just a filmmaker that makes a movie good most of the time. It's everybody involved; it's a collective effort.

The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

It's not uncommon for young people to expect things. It's part of growing up.