"It is easier to live as a Protestant, but better to die as a Catholic."

“I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.”

“And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.”

“Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest than an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.”

“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.”

“Fear begins to melt away when you begin to take action on a goal you really want.”

“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.”

“These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.”

“Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.”