After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

. . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

The wedding of Christianity or Judaism with nationalism is lethal.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.