I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

I don't like seeing people angry.

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.