For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

You have to know what you want to get it.

The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.

We know that we can do what men can do, but we still don't know that men can do what women can do. That's absolutely crucial. We can't go on doing two jobs.

There are of course people who are more important than others in that they have more importance in the world but this is not essential and it ceases to be. I have no sense of difference in this respect because every human being comprises the combination form.