My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.

The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.