My goal is to entertain myself and others.

We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.

Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a response to those political situations. Whereas I was interested in more things than the political atmosphere. I was considering the whole social atmosphere: the impact of TV and radio and the lack of education. I could see the coming event of schoolteachers not teaching reading anymore. The less they taught, the more you wouldn't need books.

I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people.

Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.