When Cartier-Bresson goes to China, he shows that there are people in China, and that they are Chinese.

Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is perpetually in training, getting ready to launch himself from his own missile pad into a high, beautiful orbit; even his failures may yet be turned to successes.

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives.

What makes me feel strong? Being in love and work. I must work.

I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams.

10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.

Art is seduction, not rape.