We need not fear God as we fear all other suffering, which burns and maims and kills. For God's fire, though it will perfect us, will not destroy, for 'the bush was not consumed.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?

(The festival) was awfully impersonal and abstract and there was something really gloomy about it. That's when I first started thinking about the typical view of reality.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another; they were marvelously inconsistent.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

As what we call genius arises out of the disproportionate power and size of a certain faculty, so the great difficulty lies in harmonizing with it the rest of the character.

LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

Let's put it this way - I photograph what interests me all the time. I live with the pictures to see what that thing looks like photographed. I'm saying the same thing; I'm not changing it.

In the end, you can' t talk to everyone.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

To a father, when a child dies, the future dies; to a child when a parent dies, the past dies.

Perhaps an individual must consider his own death to be the final phenomenon of nature.