The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still serve God--a God who speaks in deeds, not in words, and whose vocabulary is the Cosmos.

The ghetto was not only a place of refuge for a persecuted minority but a great experiment in peace, in self-discipline and in humanism. As such it still exists and refuses to give up in spite of all the brutality that surrounds it. I was brought up among those people.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.