What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Although I get so much fan mail from Great Britain, tell me, am I more famous there than Michael Madsen?

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.

We've had fairly consistent financial results.

I have so many just precious, fond memories that revolve around food, and that's why I have such a passion for it.

When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.

I can't dance on ice, because I'm like Bambi on ice.

No disrespect to the country. It's a wonderful place, the where's he gone again?

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Even though 'Heathers' didn't make a lot of money, I really was able to transition into a situation where people thought I could play an attractive role because of it.