The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.