I don't pay attention to target audiences and therefore I often hear that I am a ratings killer, somebody who fundamentally doesn't care whether one person is watching or an entire soccer stadium.

We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.

You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning.

Hidden in a long text, there are perhaps three lines that count.

If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Most kids act out because they want your attention. Don't spank your child show them some attention.

Making English grammar conform to Latin rules is like asking people to play baseball using the rules of football.

Michael Lowenthal has written a big-hearted and wise book about familial love in all its richness and complexity.

I think the fall from the farmer to the operative as great and memorable as that from the man to the farmer.

To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place.

If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.

But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening.

Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.