There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally... Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.

Faith gives us strength and reassurance and leaves us bathed in the wisdom that we are never alone.

I usually try not to think about actors while writing, because the odds of those stars aligning and you getting those specific people are so rare.

When I dream, I am ageless.

What works for the person you're imitating may not work for you.

Never in my lifetime have I been called boring. But I think I was a boring candidate for president because I tried to be responsible. And one of the greatest problems I had is that I was governor.

Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.

If we get it wrong about Jesus, it doesn’t matter what else we get right.

David Mamet, Tim Kazurinsky, and Denise DeClue, who adapted [ About Last Night]. Between the three of them... I mean, it's always down to the writing. You're only as good as your writing.

I am the kind of writer that people think other people are reading.