When you step on the first tee it doesn't matter what you look like. ... It doesn't help your 5-iron if you're pretty.

Grace is a divine strength.

Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive –

For at the heart of the uniform, reasoning is shaky and elusive: a mind in search of ideas should first stock up on appearances.

Without a purpose, schools are houses of detention, not attention

No one has yet managed to be post-Shakespearean.

I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

I wanted them to love the story so they would love me.

As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.