The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.

External freedom has probably never existed, but neither have I ever known anyone who knew inner freedom.

I knew I couldn't go on like this, but I'd never been capable of simply nipping an anxiety in the bud. I always had to wait until it was ripe and mature and fell from me.

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.

This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you couldn't know when the next one was coming.

Those who try and fail are much wiser than those who never try for fear of failure.

I think you go through a period as a teenager of being quite cool and unaffected by things.

Intolerance is the besetting sin of moral fervour.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

It's just a figment of the imagination.

I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

I really enjoy directing television because you get to work in so many different genres and with different people.