Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else.

No male writer is likely to be asked to sit on a panel addressing itself to the special problems of a male writer.

I saw all of the films [based on The Tempest] available, including the one with Helen Mirren in which Prospero is Prospera - you wonder, "Would it work?" But it does, because anything she does works.

Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

There's more private security in the United States than there are publicly funded forces, like police. What you don't want is a meld of government and commerce - you really want to keep those two things separate - because once you have that meld, you've got megacorruption, and you have no third force to whom you can say this stuff is poisoning our kids.