I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

Actually, there is no such thing as a homosexual person, any more than there is such a thing as a heterosexual person. The words are adjectives describing sexual acts, not people. The sexual acts are entirely normal; if they were not, no one would perform them.

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be the reformers.

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small 'yes' at the center of a vast 'no'.

That loyal retainer of the Chase Manhattan Bank, the American president.

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country.

If you are at the mercy of what they call print interviews and the mercy of people who write about you, they can always tell lies.