"Christ was Begotten by an immortal Father in the same way that mortal men are begotten by mortal fathers."

“Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs me over, that every low, mean syllable uttered in my direction seems to intimate the violence of murder, that every family seems like an opportunity for ruin and every marriage a ceremony into which calamity will fall and hearts will be broken and lives destroyed and people branded by the mortifications of love?”

“Most people in the university [ Columbia University ], including the administration, are very biased against the military.”

Source : "At Columbia, First ROTC Event Since '72" by Shlomo Greenwald, The New York Sun, May 17, 2006.

“When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.”

“Maybe it's wishful thinking, this snaggly faith of mine, or maybe it's Miles Davis saying, Don't play what's there, play what's not there.”

Source : "SPIN" Magazine, (p. 30), December 1990.

“All films are learning processes. I am still trying to work out how you make a movie. I didn't study at film school or any of those things. I didn't bother with film theory.”

“It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, ie.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

“Of course we fight. What sisters don't battle?”

“I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.”