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New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place. ”
For me, cooking is an expression of the land where you are and the culture of that place. ”
Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer space. ”
My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ”
Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded. ”
No human is completely fearless. ”
Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity. ”
Before you're a writer, you're a citizen, a human being, and therefore the weapons of the citizen are at your disposal to use or not use. ”
Each time I think I've created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space. ”
Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. ”