Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

The truth is always multiplex.

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes.

Ambition like a liquid ruby stains.

The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.

It's only ... when we're stripped of purpose that we know who we are.

I dont celebrate any friendship that was build on hate, because we share the common enemy.

when you're young you do think that things last forever unfortunately they don't Lyra.

The failure to set standards for Palestinian conduct hurts the cause of peace.

I like to sing and it's just really fun to sing, and I don't get too much. And at my house I'm not allowed to because, you know, your children can't stand it when you sing at home.

Dissent is the mark of freedom.

The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future.

Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer.