You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

I read, therefore I'm interested in writers.

What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality.

Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children.

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.