The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might appear on the surface.

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

I paint the darkness and the silence, You see them as stars and poetry.

People never remember happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Everyone and Everything is conspiring to end up in a book.

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.

He'd missed matching wits with her. "Shall we duel with our lips?" "You may find yourself eating grass for breakfast.

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

Consequently, their school [film-school ] was the school of life, and it was very much reflected in their work.

I’d relived enough terrible events happening to cautious people to know that prudence wasn’t a guarantee for happiness.

Due to my work, I tend to stay in hotels a lot of the time, and I generally prefer smaller hotels, as you tend to get better service than in the larger hotels.

Success has got no taste or smell and when you get used to it, it's as if it didn't exist.