"The only way to police a moral universe is to make it happen."

"The future of the country is in the hands of the young people, and they know it."

"You can't be a writer and be in the world and not be political. You can't be a writer and be in the world and not be a human being."

"I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do."

"One writes out of one thing only: one’s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one has examined one’s experience."