Art isn't supposed to change the world, but it can.

[Propaganda] does not have multiple shadings; it has a positive and a negative; love or hate, right or wrong, truth or lie, never half this way and half that way.

We owe most of our great inventions and most of the achievements of genius to idleness either enforced or voluntary.

Pass that thing, slightly, lightly and politely.

One never perishes through anybody but oneself.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.

The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

I'm not the type that won't drink but I will drink once in awhile.

My favorite thing is Spaghetti with white clam sauce anywhere on the Amalfi Coast or the Tuscan Coast.