“Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted set, the mystery of the lighted world there.”
“(Responding to a sneeze from the audience) Who exploded?”
“This is what mankind has always wanted... that the environment should respond to human thought. That is the core of magic and the oldest dream of mankind, and, here on me, it is fact.”
“Knowing myself as the sinner enables me to know something more: a God of mercy--something greater, for love responds to what is good and lovable; mercy responds to what is not good and makes it good and lovable.”
“The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.”
“The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images adequate to the reality.”