They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.

I love moving around from town to town. I never got on a train in my life without my spirits rising.

n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.