Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.

There's never been a good government.

A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.

I used to get my money at the end of the week, buy my mum something, or buy a record, and that was it.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

I love the act of writing. I like the quiet, internal aspect of it. If I lost track of that, I couldn't direct the same way. I couldn't be a director for-hire; it's just not my nature.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

When I was playing junior football when I was a kid, we were the Geneva Giants, so it was kind of embedded in me to be a Giants fan.