The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.

It is always a problem to know what an image means.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.

The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.

Keep compassion close to your chest at all times.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.