To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.

We regard God as an airman regards his parachute

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves unable to see that here now this very moment is sacred but once it's gone-its value is incontestable.

It would shine a torch into the dirty little corner where the BNP defecate on our democracy, and that would be much more powerful than duffing them up in the street - which Im also in favour of.

We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.

They kept on hollering, and I simply had to put my foot down. I said, 'I'm the governor and I say the ignorant in this state have to learn, blacks as well as whites.' And they learned.

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.

I feel very strongly that we make decisions about what we're giving to the world, what we're withholding from the world, by virtue of what we put on our bodies.

When you are present, the world is truly alive.

My favourite member of the Beatles is Lennon. He might have been crazy. But he's my kind of crazy.