Terrorism is a direct response to the crimes our government has committed against foreigners (besides which, the actual terrorists are within our own government)

I don't seem to be cynical to myself but how what I say goes down with others is their problem. I'm realistic.

The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography

A huge number of Americans still believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. You have a people that don't know anything about the rest of the world, and you have leaders who lie to them, lie to them, and lie to them.

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth. I have no social position and I stay away from what is known as society as much as possible. But people like to re-invent you, according to cliché.

France is a nation devoted to the false hypothesis on which it then builds marvelously logical structures.

You can improve your talent, but your talent is a given, a mysterious constant. You must make it the best of its kind.