We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Whenever there is fear you will get wrong figures.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

If you have stage fright it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

You know I never used to be a bad flyer but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless the fear of being trapped the fear of being out of control.

To seek understanding before taking action yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.