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.

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.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

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.

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

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.

let your haters be your motivators

The wonders of a journey consist far more of such intangible experiences and unexpected situations than of factual things and events of material reality.

The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.

When I was 8 years old, I knew what I was going to be—an actress.

An archetypal gangster is always at a remove. We can't get into his mindset.

A good leader encourages followers to tell him what he needs to know, not what he wants to hear.

Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own

Why pay $100 on a therapy session when you can spend $25 on a cigar? Whatever it is will come back; so what, smoke another one.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.