To read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement not incitement.

The principal instances of mass violence in the world today are those committed by governments within their own legally recognized borders.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

I have been told that I am a "natural" feminist, someone who was born a feminist. In fact I was quite blind to what the problem was: I couldn't understand why anyone would hesitate to do what they wanted to do just because they were told that women didn't do such things.

It's almost as if this is the fundamental procedure in modern society: duplication and recycling.

Art is a form of consciousness.