All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

I like Italy. I was always at home there, it's a marvelous place to become invisible. Nobody bothers you and nobody is interested in you and I find that very good for work.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.

The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no.'

When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.