What is the use in being a celebrity if you can't use the platform to help?
For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.
The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time. . . and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.
It is to be remembered that all art is magical in origin - music, sculpture, writing, painting - and by magical I mean intended to produce very definite results. Paintings were originally formulae to make what is painted happen. Art is not an end in itself, any more than Einstein's matter-into-energy formulae is an end in itself. Like all formulae, art was originally FUNCTIONAL, intended to make things happen, the way an atom bomb happens from Einstein's formulae.
There are no innocent bystanders.
Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you what's wrong - a series of unprecedented horrors perpetrated by so-called Christians: The Inquisition, the Conquistadores, the American Indian wars, slavery, Hiroshima and the present-day Bible Belt.
I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.
The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.
I'm having a vacation, and it's so beautiful, and maybe I'll never get another film idea in my life.
There are things we see with our eyes, sitting high and looking out. And there are things we see with our hearts, sitting still and looking in.