We freeze up because we expect a certain result or because we want things to be perfect.

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself.

It is interesting to find that those whom I like, they also like me.

The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Let the skin be like water, let the flesh hang from the bones.

Gratitude to the Great Sky who holds billions of stars - and goes yet beyond that - beyond all powers, and thoughts and yet is within us - Grandfather Space. The Mind is his Wife

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

We have to start seeing people as human beings. Our entire humanity depends on that.

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.