I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.