This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform

Hatred is always self hatred, and there is something suicidal about it.