With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

There are two kinds of brave men: those who are brave by the grace of nature, and those who are brave by an act of will.

I always start a book for money. If you're married five times you have to.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.