The best way to predict the future is to create it.
I think the most important thing is to be honest with yourself and with others.
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Dictatorships breed bad literature because they breed fear and conformity.