One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.

Israel is the canary in the mine. What happens to Israel will eventually happen to America itself.

It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.

I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when they go in one direction, not another.

That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers.

I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.

Parents need to listen as much to their kids as they do to them: "The first duty of love is to listen."

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.