Art is as useful as bread.

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Every great work of art ... is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.