You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope