If [domain seizure] isn't direct censorship, I don't know what is.

In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.

Every nation can harness the energy of its citizens, either towards constructive work to generate optimism and hope, or towards tensions, unrest and war.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.

Nothing happens without a reason.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us.