If you’re going to be an artist, you’ve got to make your work your best friend, that you can go to whatever you’re feeling, and have a conversation with it.

Through every turn in life, through every little twist of fate, there is an opportunity to take a step back, find and reinvent yourself, and come back a bigger, stronger, better you.

To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.

Education is a weapon that doesn't create destruction, that creates peace

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

They do tricks even I can't figure out.

I think we're all mysteries to ourselves.

The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.

You cannot believe how hard it is to try and raise money for a film. I did it for six years and it was such a failure.