The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

One of the most powerful devices is to distort time, to go from human time to atomic time, geologic time. Sometimes you can actually accomplish that, with one unexpected word choice.

I was surrounded by nature and trying to come to terms with this blissful nature versus the inhumane mentality of war. People were being deluded by someone using the word peace.

Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.