Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.

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.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

If human rights are supposed to have any meaning, then they have to be discussed openly.

It is imperative to use forceful measures to force the regime to respect human rights.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

My family is well, and that's what's important.

If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.