Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.

The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

The beautiful came to this city [Hollywood] in huge pathetic herds, to suffer, to be humiliated, to see the powerful currency of their beauty devalued like the Russian ruble or Argentine peso;to work as bellhops, as bar hostesses, as garbage collectors, as maids. The city was a cliff and they were its stampeding lemmings. At the foot of the cliff was the valley of the broken dolls.

Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

YouTube is full of pieces of trash. If you want to look on YouTube and find something that insults you, you can probably find it.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.