In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb.

Communists are the last optimists.