Those secrets residing in their hearts and minds held magnificent Energy. Humans were too inept to see it as anything but evil.

I would destroy the entire village if doing so meant keeping you safe.

Even in the midst of the storm the sun is still shining.

So I had this completely unrealistic idea of what America was — but I wanted to be there.

I have principles and I am not going to be forced to compromise them.

There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.

There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

You can't teach an ear, you can't teach talent, but you can teach people who have those things not to just fly by the seat of their pants.

The integrity of China was more important than [the people] in Tiananmen Square.

I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and the prospect before us, that I can bring you no good tidings.

You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.