Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

People can only be found in what they do.

Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.

They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

Producers are looking to me to concept full worlds for subjects to compete, play a game show in, win an award, blah blah blah.

Practice is just as valuable as a sale. The sale will make you a living; the skill will make you a fortune.

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

What I find really difficult is making career decisions.

Successful innovation has consistently proved to be fluid and flexible, fast and furious - that is, passionate.

It wasn't so much destroying my dancing, it was destroying me