Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

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.

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 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.

Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it.

It just a fun game, until someone starts to win and then everyone else begins to cheat!

Morality often involves tension within the group motivated by competition between different groups.

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

There's no end to suspicion once you get going.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But that's it.

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.