It is the Jew who lies when he swears allegiance to another faith; who becomes a danger to the world.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen, but greatens, his life.

Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith.

"I am not an American of JEWISH faith. I am a JEW. I have been a JEW for a thousand years. Hitler was right in one thing. He calls the Jewish people a race, and we are a race."

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film.

Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

There are geologists who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.

I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy.

A constant interrogation.

All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.

One of the most important goals to have may well be the goal to create the life you want without preventing other people from creating the life they want.