I'm totally independent. I don't bear any responsibility to any system.

By participating in the society we live in, we understand our conditions and the way we relate to the world.

Once you've tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.

Everyone of us is a potential convict.

The media is the message. It carries the full intention and the meaning. Once you change it...it's very disturbing.

I was an illegal alien for many, many years. I couldn't move. If I moved I could not even get a visa back.

I loved New York — every inch of it. It was a little bit scary at that time, but still, the excitement was so strong — visually and intellectually. It was like a monster.