"Perhaps it's a good thing that human beings are not immortal. If they were, they'd get tired of living and fall into a state of profound boredom. It's the knowledge of death that makes life precious."

"The purpose of art is to make you think, to make you feel, to make you question the world around you."

"Never having had a religious upbringing, I'm not burdened by any of the guilt that seems to go along with it."

"I don't really have any answers, I just have questions."

"The novel (The Shining) is by no means a serious literary work, but the plot is for the most part extremely well worked out, and for a film that is all that really matters."