I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.

I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings

Literature was intended to be dangerous. Art was meant to be dangerous. Ideas were nothing if they were not dangerous.

He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.

And what you do is you go into where your anger is, if you're writing anger, you go into where your hatred is, if you're writing hatred. Your joy is, if you're writing joy. You find the source of the energy that draws hatred, anger, joy, etc., etc., etc. That's what you have to find. That's what you do as an actor and that's what you do as a writer. And you bring people to the page.

Complaints about reality are immature.

Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land.