The best things in life are not seen or heard ... but felt with the heart.

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

I refuse to be molded into some stereotypical ballplayer that has no interests, really, no life, no depth, no intelligence.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are. To be is the great thing.

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.

Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

I think that when people hear the president [George W. Bush] speak, frankly, they think he's really stupid. But what people don't realize is that there's a genius behind that stupidity, and that genius is Harlan McCraney.

Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.

By the time I finished 'Poison,' the New Queer Cinema was branded, and I was associated with this. In many ways, it formed me as a filmmaker, like as a feature filmmaker I never set out to be.