"In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened."

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."

"You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience."

"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."

"I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid."

"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."

"On certain plays and situations I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me."

"I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there."