I shall not return to Constantinople until I have conquered Egypt!

I am ashamed of my nation.

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death. A decision in favor of a Soviet could not be opposed by the Young Turks.

800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past.

Isn’t it time that, loving, we freed ourselves from the beloved, and, trembling, endured:as the arrow endures the bow, so as to be, in its flight, something more than itself?

I am like a ruined piece of parchment scrawled over and over again with your name, so many times it has become illegible.

A novelist's characters must be with him as he lies down to sleep, and as he wakes from his dreams. He must learn to hate them and to love them.

The amazing ones are, those that don't know it!

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

Artistic inspiration ignores the law of supply and demand.

Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.