Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

The Fundamental Principle that governs - or ought to govern -human affairs if we wish to avoid misunderstandings, conflicts, or pointless utopias, is negotiation.

I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.