When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

I had a tremendous horror of going into the Army. That is probably why I went to college for so long.

When I was in New York it was like a maze, a rat maze, going from one little box to another little box and passing through passageways to get from one safe haven to another.

With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

Intellectually and compassionately explaining the reason freedom works is required for credibility.

Going to the Arctic was immense for me.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

The creative act amazes me. Whether it's poetry, whether it's music, it's an amazing process, and it has something to do with bringing forth the old out into the world to create and to bring forth that which will rejuvenate.

At the base of it was the urge if you wanted to play football to knock someone down that was what the sport was all about the will to win closely linked with contact.

Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill managed.

On those, I've said it before, I work free. It's the waiting they pay me for.

It's all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but it's that determination.

The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.

There's a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why there's so much angst across the country.

I think that all great art never strives to answer any questions; it just asks the appropriate ones at the appropriate time.

It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.

Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing 'The Bear.' I thought, 'What if I just stopped and listened?'

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now.

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

My dream is to continue filming until my body tells me to stop.

Running started as a way of relaxing. It's the only time I have to myself. No phones or e-mails or faxes.

Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.