I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to know much spiritual fulfillment. If, however, he measures it in terms of enjoying a sunrise, being warmed by a child's smile, or being able to help someone have a better day, then he is likely to know much spiritual fulfillment.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

Peace. It is a providence, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now.

The camera has its own kind of consciousness; in the lens the Garden of Eden itself would become ever so slightly too perfect.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.