If only my heart were stone.

Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.

There is no God and we are his prophets.

People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.

You have my whole heart. You always did.

This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

The idea of freedom is a piece of dry bread thrown to people so that they can break their teeth with it.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

I've just always been a fan of really fringy, outsider things, and I've always been a balloon in the wind, in terms of where that takes me.

I'm really excited, because the character, Jules, is a really awesome character. I'm really excited to be playing her, and overall, I'm really excited to be getting back to my acting roots.

I like to make my guitar sound mean.

Freedom is the power to create out of nothing, the power of the spirit to create out of itself.

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.

Read good, big important things.