Truth does not happen, it just is.

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things.

Denis Diderot

Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, something you can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. Fiske

I make movies I want to see.

Neil LaBute

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

Terry Eagleton

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.

Bible

But more importantly, I think he remembered how very close I was with my own dad, who had died in 1997.

Richard Marx

Live life with a purpose and live it full out.

Steve Maraboli

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Norman Douglas

Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.

Walter Jon Williams

(When asked: But you have a very open relationship with your fans.) Yes. We have an open relationship. Obviously they can see other authors if they want, and I can see other readers.

Neil Gaiman

It's not necessarily the amount of time you spend at practice that counts; it's what you put into the practice.

Eric Lindros

Your cause belongs to those that can avenge your wrongs.

Winkworth