Danger has been a part of my life ever since I picked up a pen and wrote. Nothing is more perilous than truth in a world that lies.

To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Women are half the society. You cannot have a revolution without women. You cannot have democracy without women. You cannot have equality without women. You can't have anything without women.

She is free to do what she wants, and free not to do it.

When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

If you are creative, you must be dissident.

To have arrived at the truth means that one no longer fears death. For death and truth are similar in that they both require a great courage if one wishes to face them.

To me, 'beauty' means to be natural, creative, honest - to say the truth.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

As long as the League of Nations constitutes only a treaty of guarantee for the victorious nations, it is by no means worthy of its name.

Small things may be important to us; to be a sometime anything is sometimes something.

You hang out with trash and you start to smell like garbage.

Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

Money is not a motivating factor. I do what comes to me at that moment.

We don't think of ourselves as being perfectionists, really. To us it's more about desperately trying to have it sound more or less OK.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

One of the things I'm going to say out there is how grateful I am - and how grateful the world is - for the tremendous gift of the black people, of jazz.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.