Pastoral Resources

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations.

I must firmly adhere to the views I have held and practice, that Socialism to succeed must be practical, tolerant, cohesive and consciously compromising with Progressive forces running, if not so far, in parallel lines towards its own goal.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality.

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

Actually, I get a little say in what my character would or wouldn't do.

On Being John Malkovich and the cinema of the absurd, I do enjoy it. I wish there were more like it. The very fact that there can't be more like it is one of the reasons it's admirable.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York.

States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.