It is in vain that he seeks dominion abroad, who is not kingly at home.
I'm the barbarian of Hollywood.
I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.
Most artists think they're frauds anyway.
Everybody's a filmmaker today.
Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
If you live up to your privileges, the angels cannot be restrained from being your associates.
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning identified himself as Catholic, and my books certainly can be read as presenting a Catholic theology "in a very particular sense. " Catholicism is a faith morally identified with the human struggle for human dignity and justice. It is a vision of the world incarnationally rooted in the senses, a faith of and in spoken and written words - Scripture, "the Word of God," the Logos.