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Movies have been great, but theatre is home. I've never been able to compare the two because they are different, special worlds. I'm just lucky to have a place in both. ”
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon? ”
I am amazed; until the day I die I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter. ”
The way black people feel, especially, is if you're going to tell a black story, let it come from a real place. ”
There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter. ”
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains. ”
Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe. ”
Religion is the last refuge of human savagery. ”
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike. ”
There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places. ”