Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.

The art that we should be doing today, in the twenty-first century, is art that is not for the museum.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.

In a global world, we should be citizens. Dignity has no nationality.

Art and politics have many things in common.

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist

If you don’t want to be foolish, don’t try to fool anyone.

When you find the best path ahead of you, leave all other paths behind you!

Theater, art, literature, cinema, press, posters, and window displays must be cleansed of all manifestations of our rotting world and placed in the service of a moral, political, and cultural idea.

A golf swing is a collection of corrected mistakes.

Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?

Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.

I've kind of had to make a career of playing villains. In order to stay employed, I had to figure out how to play bad guys.

This is the tendency of all living things: to avoid pain and to cling to pleasure.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.