The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it.

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines.

Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.

The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

I would destroy the city if something happened to you. I can't even bear the thought of it.

First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.

In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other."

I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.

I'd like to see you move up to the goat class, where I think you belong.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

Writing doesn't mean necessarily putting words on a sheet of paper. You can write a chapter while walking or eating.