For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

The British climate, although it is very wet, it is quite mild in winter. We don't get these severe - generally don't get severe winters.

Billions and billions.

A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.

Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

There’s no basis or anything. I just have this conviction that appeared inside of me which I have to follow.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.