I love when things are transparent, free and clear of all inhibition and judgement.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
A cult is a religion with no political power.
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved.
If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and everybody is acting his movie out like mad, only most people don’t know that is what they’re trapped by, their little script.
The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.
We know form past experience that when you put women's issues or face issues on the back burner, they never get dealt with. So all struggles have to be dealt with simultaneously, but within an anti-capitalist framework. A monumental task, but nothing less will do.
Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.