People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

When Jewish youths walk down the street and demand the death of Arabs simply because they're Arabs, then I've lost my own small battle.

With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.