Each new book is a tremendous challenge.
To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to justify the past.
What would it be like if I had something to defend - a home, a country, a family - and I found myself attacked by these ghostly men, these trusting boys? How do you fight an enemy who fights with neither enmity nor anger but in submission to orders from superiors, without protest and without conscience?
I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.
The government to you is what God is to agnostics--only to be invoked when your own well being is at stake.
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
How do you lose a word? Does it vanish into your memory, like an old toy in a cupboard, and lie hidden in the cobwebs and dust, waiting to be cleaned out or rediscovered?
I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.
I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.
There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures. . . there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.
I do think there are trends in your life once youve been auditioning long enough. I was the angry teenager and then the sweet victim.