 Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth. |
| Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done. |
| I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture. |
| I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood. |
| One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking. |
| And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms. |
| Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater. |
| The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. |
| See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome. |
| 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. |
| Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for. |
| There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind. |
| One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer. |
| But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all. |
| The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. |
| I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident. |
| And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others. |
| There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience. |
| Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it. |
| But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing. |
