A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.

You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.

I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design.

Act first! The ideas will follow, and if not - well, it's progress