Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

I feel that I've had enough theoretical speculation to last me a lifetime.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

In the greatest art, one is always aware of things that cannot be said. . .of the contradiction between expression and the presence of the inexpressible. Stylistic devices are also techniques of avoidance. The most potent elements of a work of art are, often, its silences.

All struggle, all resistance is -- must be -- concrete. And all struggle has a global resonance. If not here, then there. If not now, then soon. Elsewhere as well as here.

the process of building a self and its works is always too slow. One is always in arrears to oneself.