Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

When an actor has money he doesn't send letters, he sends telegrams.

Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.