I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.

I saw Quentin Tarantino's 'Django Unchained,' and you could say a lot of things against it, but it was incredible fun. I don't like blood and gore and I am very squeamish about violence, but Tarantino's violence is actually funny.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.