Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

I don't do the things other people call "play."

We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom.

My children are delightful people, whom I would love even if they weren't my children.

The theme you choose may change or simply elude you, but being your own story means you can always choose the tone. It also means that you can invent the language to say who are you and what you mean.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.