I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort.

The only thing I know anything about are my own fantasies and anxieties. I don't trust my eyes. I consider myself to be a short-story writer.

I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.

It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.