In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

English is weak in describing emotional states or intensities of interpersonal relationships.