If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone.

... vulgarity has no nation.

Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.

The culture of the United States has flooded the world. It's the inevitable result of a powerful culture, art. We've got an instinctive touch when it comes to the popular mind because we've had no aristocracy. It is a democratic country. And we know without knowing it, without bothering to understand it, how to reach ordinary people, sometimes with the most vulgar, worthless junk on the face of the earth, but we know how to do it [laughter].