Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?
Think well. Speak well. Do well. These three things, through the mercy of God, will make a man go to Heaven.
I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.
There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.
I've never been very interested in literary narrative in movies, it always seems an obligatory trait and the least interesting of all the things film can do. It forces us to look through the thing instead of at it, it teaches us to ignore our senses and look for meaning outside the immediate world of our experience.
First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there; Black Panthers spoke at the church; it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters.
Continued eloquence is wearisome.