We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.
It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.
Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.
There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.
Only art means anything.
I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.
I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor. " That was how we opened the semester.
My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.