"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"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."

"The whole idea of being a great artist is to be able to express something that no one else has expressed before."

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