One of the big mistakes they made in Europe is that the circumstances in which you most frequently read or hear the word "race" or "racism" in Europe applies to Muslims. Which is not a race. It is a religion. You can convert to this. You cannot convert your race. I could become a Muslim. I could not become a Chinese person or a black person. So they constantly use that in Europe.

I believe in talking behind peoples' backs. That way, they hear it more than once.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.

The main symptom of falling in love is that you lose your intellectual prowess.

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.