In Hollywood, not to have an analyst is virtually an admission of failure.
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
The rich are happier than we are, and should be.
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.
Someday a loving Hand will be laid upon our shoulder and this brief message will be given: "Come home.