The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.

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].

If I see an ending, I can work backward.