There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Very often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.

American literature has always been immigrant.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

The thing about literature is that, yes, there are kind of tides of fashion, you know; people come in and out of fashion; writers who are very celebrated fall into, you know, people you know stop reading them, and then it comes back again.

Where there is no belief, there is no blasphemy.