The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.

Movies are more likely than literature to reach deep feelings in people.

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.

The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.