Find a voice in a whisper.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

If something is truly important to you, you will find the time.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

When Larry Wright won the Pulitzer for The Looming Tower we all strutted around for weeks, until some sourpuss among us noted that it was actually Larry, and not the rest of us, who won the prize.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.