Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Waves are not measured in feet or inches, they are measured in increments of fear.

When you play teams that are good defensively and teams that have been there with experience, the object is to keep the goals against down.

Once kitsch is interpreted ironically, it ceases to be kitsch

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

I barely can go shopping for clothes. I find it difficult to walk into stores. The whole thing bores me so much.

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera

There are a few writers that one has a relationship with that means, basically, you do whatever they say. One is Caryl Churchill, and the other is David Hare.