A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.

Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free, The loveliest things that still remain, Than thus remember thee.

The ultimate creative capacity of the brain may be, for all practical purposes, infinite.

Letters, from absent friends, extinguish fear, Unite division, and draw distance near; Their magic force each silent wish conveys, And wafts embodied though, a thousand ways: Could souls to bodies write, death's pow'r were mean, For minds could then meet minds with heav'n between.

Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.

This is the real Church of the Lord Jesus Christ -- not merely organisation, but a group of people, individually the children of God, drawn together by the Holy Spirit for a particular task, either in a local situation or over a wider area. The Church of the Lord Jesus should be a group of those who are redeemed and bound together on the basis of true doctrine. But subsequently they should show together a substantial "sociological healing" of the breaches between men, which have come about because of... man's sin. The Christian sociological position is that the sociological problems which we find... are a result of the separation that has come between men because of sin. (Continued tomorrow).

If you view all the things that happen to you, both good and bad, as opportunities, then you operate out of a higher level of consciousness.

Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

Ha, ha, that was a thigh slapper!

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

It is Hebrew to me.

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, But Genius must be born; and never can be taught.