We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.