First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.
Mine [parents] started out more from scratch, because I'm constantly aware of what they suffered in the war.
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.
The choice between starving and being eaten is an exotic one.
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least affected by striving for power, physical pleasure, or material profit, most liberated from any oath of duty or of constancy. With Eros the body stands naked, in friendship our spirit is denuded.
We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.
One learns much more by writing fiction, because the insights come from those deeper subconscious levels where the greater and more interesting truths lie.
We are quite rich enough to defend ourselves, whatever the cost. We must now learn that we are quite rich enough to educate ourselves as we need to be educated.
So I fancied a game of darts with my mate. He said, 'Nearest the bull goes first. ' He went 'Baah' and I went 'Moo'. He said 'You're closest. '
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.