"The future is now. It was now a long time ago. We are always living in the future."

"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people he's writing about."

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers."

"I often wonder what it is they think is going to happen when they die. I mean, they’re so busy trying to live, they don’t have time to die."