People don't want to know. They have to be made to know. Whether they act on what they know is up to them. But they have to know.

I was very lighthearted. This often the way when the abandonment of personal responsibility is enforced: neither wronged innocence or just guilt can seriously impair the sensation of freedom one has.

In a story you had to find a reason, but real life gets on very well without even Freudian motivations.

There is only one kind of immorality in fiction, and that is when you write badly.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

A man who serves language, however imperfectly, should always serve truth.

I can't accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias.

Man does not ask for nightmares, he does not ask to be bad. He does not will his own willfulness.

...I expected a gift, you know, something nice and useless...

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

You've got to enjoy whatever you can and forget about the rest.

Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.

David Axelrod says we need to inspire more young people to be journalists? How about inspiring journalists to be journalists?

There are some dreams that get stuck between your teeth when you sleep, so that when you open your mouth to yawn awake they fly right out of you.

A true friend to me is someone who will be there when the chips are down.

I'm not a big star in Japan. I'm an actor. I have a very normal life. Four days a week, I cook at home. A star doesn't do that.

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.