Memory is dramatic present tense. You create it as you remember it.

The moment you try to institutionalize art, it ceases to be art.

The call to write does not respect background or experience.

Literary theories will not make a writer write.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.

Oddly enough, the lack of money makes us a little bit more creative in a sense.

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

A man will never change his mind if he have no mind to change.

IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.