If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.

What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand.

Suffering doesn't improve human beings, does it?

Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.

Women always need other women to lean on. They become friends in order to hate each other better. The more they hate each other, the more inseparable they become.

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

In Romanian society, I am not particularly well-liked. I don't often receive invitations.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

I have always written only for myself - to clarify things, to clarify things with myself, to understand in an inner way what is actually happening.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.

I just know that it's smart for my career to carve my own path and do my own thing.

The deep problem facing everyone is how to break free when being a prisoner is the only comfortable way you know how to live.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.

When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.