‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

In the end, you write the book that grabs you by the throat and demands to be written.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.