Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

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.

I had the idea that there were two worlds. There was a real world as I called it, a world of wars and boxing clubs and children'shomes on back streets, and this real world was a world where orphans burned orphans.... I liked the other world in which almost everyone lived. The imaginary world.

Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed. And then came the next shock. We had to realize that the people that did this were brilliant. It showed that the ego we could hold up until September 10 was inadequate.

If God is all good, then He is not all powerful. If God is all powerful, then He is not all good. I am a disbeliever is the omnipotence of God because of the Holocaust. But for 35 years, I have been believing that He is doing the best he can.