There are a lot of women that I think are very powerful and would be great presidents.
I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.
Life itself is an exile. The way home is not the way back.
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.
When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.
Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.
A market where chief executive officers make 262 times that of the average worker and 821 times that of the minimum-wage worker is not a market that is working well. And it is surely not working well enough to build a solid middle class.
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. . . . Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.
I do not ever want to be a huge star.
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.