Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

Art has to be severe. It cannot be commercial. It cannot be for the producer or even for the public. It has to be for oneself.

I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral 48% indignation and 50% envy.

He alone has lost the art to live who cannot win new friends.

In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is carrying around.

I think that's a powerful thing, to be able to engage your audience and let them put some of themselves into the music.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

If you think about a child that is born and how it's born, if it has racism in his genes, every child that is raised up to hit or beat someone up with anger and resentments.

I went to good schools, and I've just always had an allergic reaction to snobbishness - always found myself preferring to blend into the woodwork. I have an affinity to those who, in a sense, failed.

A nation regenerates itself only upon heaps of corpses.

I see no point in reading.

Whoever authorized the evolution of the spiders of Australia should be summarily dragged out into the street and shot.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.