My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Images are more real than anyone could have supposed.

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

I do not think white America is committed to granting equality to the American Negro... this is a passionately racist country; it will continue to be so in the foreseeable future.

Art is seduction, not rape.