However, some things must be said, and there are times when silence becomes an accomplice to injustice.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I'm working on. I'm really working hard on some specific songs.

You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.

Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and anopportunity, not a threat.

If you could stand back far enough and watch the whole process you'd see you are a totally determined being.

As was his language so was his life.

Retroactive management emphasizes the bottom line.