A very great Iliad. . . concerns the creation of a nation.
On the other side of pain, there is still love.
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to teach, and it lasts only as long as is needed for the lesson. And the lesson is always love.
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.
All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.
[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society. . . and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason. . . Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.
Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.
I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.
Over the years, I developed an extreme hostility towards the non-profit art organization gulag. I formed the opinion that it's actually a very sophisticated form of government suppression of creativity, particularly in young people. When I see the younger generation dragged into this and being told to write these statements and take these photos, define your work this way or that way, I think it's wrong. I think instead of paying any attention to politics, a great project for young artists is to attack and destroy the non-profits of our world.