America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

God is dead but my hair is perfect.

The totalitarian state is not a force unleashed, the truth is in chains.

For me, dressing is always a question of principle, respect, a sense of order, not to disguise myself, even in rotten places.

I definitely don't agree with that sort of rhetoric from the United States - this idea that all the major conflicts of our age need to be solved militarily.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

Islamic terrorists are new examples of an old problem with fascism.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.

The only successful revolution of this century is totalitarianism.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

Most likely, your issue, is that NO ONE has REALLY been there for YOU in YOUR life.

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

I don't have to worry about how my movies sell because I'm not the guy in front.

Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.

I think Ive learned more about Baroque music than any other genre.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.