But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely b….

I feel like I've had very few bad experiences but even those I look back on and really feel like if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be where I am. I ….

You can't ride the chairlift and call yourself Edmund Hillary..

Bad beginnings, bad endings..

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we ….

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that wa….

He who has no faith in others shall find no faith in them..

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul..

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead..

Movies were much better in the days when I was doing them..

I react emotionally to everything!.

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

I'd like to have a go at directing..

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not..

In your 20s, you learn. In your 30s, you earn..

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives..

Studying the behavior of large whales has been likened to astronomy. The observer glimpses his subjects, often at long range; he cannot do experiment….

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which th….

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament..

Earth is the holiest place in the Universe, loving the earth, and loving life is the way to generate positive vibrations..

Now I am almost entirely love..