There's something to say about inspiration - when it comes into your life...the feeling is insatiable.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

If I like it, if I think the character is going to be fun, if I think the story is good and if it appeals to me, then I want to do it.

The priest is the personification of falsehood.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

I'm a very slow reader, and books of interviews are an absolute favorite of mine.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Study the science of art and the art of science.

Not getting our needs fulfilled is painful - but it's a sweet pain, not suffering, which is what comes from life-alienated thinking and interpretation.

Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.