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

I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting.

You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

I don't see us winning the war. We have made enemies of one billion Muslims.

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success