Death unites as well as separates it silences all paltry feeling.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight because that's a pretty cool concept.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

When I was little I thought isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

A man's sentiments are generally just and right while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates as it does in women with the indignation of righteousness.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Certain kinds of speed flow intensity density of attacks density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is I think easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude a common language.

I don't think art is propaganda it should be something that liberates the soul provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.