... too much brooding, not enough doing.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.

I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

Nothing so completely verifies our perception of a thing as our killing of it.

People can only be found in what they do.

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

Time is light, time is dark. You either dance, or you fall.

They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.

Think of any great man or woman. How can you separate them from the years in which they lived? You can't. Their greatness lies in their response to that moment.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

They had from an early hour made up their mind that society was, luckily, unintelligent, and the margin allowed them by this had fairly become one of their commonplaces.

Celebrity is something I've never been into, and never will be.

I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.

When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.

People who speak up for freedom in regimes that are oppressive are often a threat.

Acting has been my lover and best friend. My confidant and my tormentor. It has given me support and broken my heart and mended it.

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

Many times our weaknesses are extensions of our strengths.