Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

You've got to bend with the wind or you're broken.

I write with as much objectivity as I can.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.