For order represents our fear and nervousness. We create ordered interiors as a protest over the passing of things, to define our mortal lives against the void of time.

... the first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

Humanism: an exaltation of freedom, but one limited by our need to exercise it as an integral part of nature and society.

The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make every time you stamp, throw a lamp.

Life might take you down different roads. But each of you gets to decide which one to take.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Put opportunity ahead of security.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

We don't have to fix anything.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

[Napoleon deployed] every available resource to inflict all-out defeats on [his] enemies.

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.