This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

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Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

We are always in the place of beginning; there is no advance in infinity.

The world of literature is a world where there is no reality except that of the human imagination.

Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility.

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

(On period costume posture coaching:)"We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

We all want to fix things. Just as we all believe that so much in life can be rectified. Mend fences, build bridges, reach out, engage in mutual healing.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

The secret to all power is to only do that which all would willingly do.

To see the films coming out of France is to break into a vast treasure and become liberated.

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