Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

We are capitalism made flesh.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

The world bein’ so small ain’t always a good thing for those of us who ain’t searchin’ for new and different stuff.

Believe that you are successful, dream it every day, soon you will find that you are successful.

It is a wise writer who knows his own subconscious.

Goodnight sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

I saw Linus Pauling as a brilliant lecturer and a man with a fantastic memory, and a great, great showman. I think he was the century's greatest chemist. No doubt about it.

Only those who keep walking get sweet returns... look at the sun's perseverance- dynamic & always on the move, never dormant... hence keep moving.

I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.

I suppose things are better now, but ... I don't know. People still hate each other, they just know how to hide it better.

I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.