To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.

I am just a man, not fit to do the work of God... or the Devil.

I have four children which is not bad considering I'm not a Catholic.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

People are annoyed with the Chinese for not respecting more human rights. But with a population that size it's very difficult to have the same attitude to human rights.