You want to make money, remake 'Cinderella.' You want to move people, remake the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth.

There are absolutely almost perfect people who experience no guilt; they don't know what it is. They simply do what they need to do - or want to do - next. They see nothing wrong with it. They feel no guilt. They express no guilt. And it's not even certain what harm they do.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

You can make children believe whatever you want, and the children of today are the soldiers and mothers of tomorrow.

The degree to which you're peculiar and different is the degree to which you must learn to hear people thinking. Just in self-defense you have to learn, where is their kindness? Where is their danger? Where is their generosity?

If you're fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939 and you're a Jew, you don't think so much about relationships. People didn't have a lot of divorces during the Holocaust, for instance.