Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

The most socially subversive institution of our time is the one-parent family.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

For me this is the vital litmus test: no intellectual society can flourish where a Jew feels even slightly uneasy.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

America... goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Oh, yeah?" Leo growled. "Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.

Enthusiasm is that ingredient of vitality mixed with a firm belief in what you are doing that ensures the success of any project you undertake.

So, one, that DJ Spooky is a lot you know this sort of wilder persona and then Paul Miller is more of a nuts and bolts kind of person, meaning just making sure all these things work.

I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I love performing, signing autographs, taking 'selfies' with the fans. This is just what I feel like I was born to do.

I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.