The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.

A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.

When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight.

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

Today, see if you can stretch your heart and expand your love so that it touches not only those to whom you can give it easily, but also to those who need it so much.

Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

I think that's what we all want on this earth - to feel that at some level we have connected with other human beings.

I am very happy Because I have conquered myself And not the world. I am very happy Because I have loved the world And not myself.

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.