"Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be."

"Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead."

"A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language."

"All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him."

"The darkest nights often reveal that the only true currency in life is time well spent."

"Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days."

"Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time."

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity."