I'm really not that confident!.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind..

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility..

I don't like things that aren't true..

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better..

Vaisey looked like a startled earwig..

I prefer true over happy now..

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing..

But metaphors help eliminate what separates you and me..

Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs..

What can go wrong will go wrong..

It seems to me that metaphors come down to a certain idea of interconnectedness - that everything relates to everything else. Metaphors don't believe….

You have to have something to put your work in otherwise it's not valid.

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..

By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I knew this only as a vague sense of disappoint….

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money..

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry..

To use a basketball metaphor, West Wing cast was a group that liked to pass as much as they liked to shoot..

I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor..

The metaphor for Palestine is stronger than the Palestine of reality..