“And support the ones you love when they take risks.”

Take risks in your life in the pursuit of your dreams.

Support the ones you love when it is their moment to risk.

And once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.

Weigh risk carefully.

In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.

One had better die fighting against injustice than die like a dog or a rat in a trap.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It’s quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, “This is me and the world be damned!” Leaders have always been the ones to stand against the society – Socrates, Christ, Freud, all the way down the line.

There’s one thing everyone should understand: I like my character.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.