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

Before the cards that one is dealt by life are the cards that fate has dealt: one's family.

To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

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.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.

Although the notion of one god may give comfort to those in need of a daddy, it reminds the rest of us that the totalitarian society is grounded upon the concept of God the father. One paternal god, one paternal leader. Authority is absolute.