"I don't want to slam somebody else's religion. I mean as a Catholic, we're basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?"

“The Nazi murder squads just wouldn't waste a bullet on a child. I just couldn't process that. I couldn't handle it.”

Source : "Kaplinsky's tears over family secret". Interview in Metro, p. 23, August 28, 2007.

“Men, I am not a religious man and I don't know your feelings in this matter, but I am going to ask you to pray with me for the success of the mission before us. And while we pray, let us get on our knees and not look down but up with faces raised to the sky so that we can see God and ask his blessing in what we are about to do.”

“Art tries, literally, to picture the things which philosophy tries to put into carefully thought-out words.”

“Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.”

“People are happiest when they are giving, they are saddest when they are just taking. And that is the core message of community.”

“You can never be too rich or too thin.”

Source : "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Elizabeth Knowles, Oxford University Press, ("Windsor, Duchess of"), 2004.

“I prefer temperance hotels - although they sell worse kinds of liquor than any other kind of hotels.”

“Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.”