I love this country, but the union jack leaves me cold.

Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.

To be in Florence is to reflect on Europe's intricate diversity - and its lost creativity.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.

Europe is a woman, now middle-aged, who has already had a number of heart attacks and is currently experiencing the biggest health crisis of her life, but one that need not be fatal.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

The Eurozone has clearly gone spectacularly wrong, pulling down all the continental economies.

Europe's biggest problem is its success.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

A central claim of the Bush administration's foreign policy is that the spread of democracy in the Middle East is the cure for terrorism.

Men do not know what they do not know, and women should not tell them.

What one person does, several people usually consider.

He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).

See, decide, attack, reverse.

I see ghosts everywhere, and that is partially a function of my being incredibly near-sighted and reading way too late into the night.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

For me the most important thing is being a really good person, and that doesn’t depend on what you do on stage, that depends on how you treat people when you’re offstage.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

Most people are afraid to follow their dreams. The thought of failure is too much for them to handle so they never even try to achieve them.

Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.