Instinct and study, love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's heart, To wrestle with the angel -- Art.

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch.

But the thing which in eminent instances signalizes so exceptional a nature is this: Though the man's even temper and discreet bearing would seem to intimate a mind peculiarly subject to the law of reason, not the less in heart he would seem to riot in complete exemption from that law, having apparently little to do with reason further than to employ it as an ambidexter implement for effecting the irrational.

So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad.

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

I said yes to 'Nymphomaniac' before it was written.

I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

It is hard as an actor when you are typecast at a really young age and come out of that pigeonhole thing.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.