The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God "Thy will be done " and those to whom God says "All right then have it your way."

I am not a surrealist. I am only a realist. All this group - surrealists - use my name. No, no, I am realist.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

Knowledge is the driving force that puts creative passion to work.

Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

Basketball was not my main sport in grade school, or even the first year of high school.

I think we must get rid of slavery or we must get rid of freedom.

Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.