If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

If we're being told to do stupid or cruel things, then it is morally correct to disobey.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Quentin Crisp said it to me; now I say it to you: say yes to everything.

Never fall for someone with a body to diet for.

I am the conscience of the 21st Century.

Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

Different is not wrong.

Ageing is a privilege not a predicament.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.

There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

It is in fact not our dream that makes us happy, but chasing that dream!

Pretend to be great

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

To me, that's where a lot of satire lies. News used to hold itself to a higher plane and slowly it has dissolved into, well, me.

I find it really weird that sexuality is still so taboo in films and violence isn't. It really bewilders me.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

Four years ago in speaking of a Jewish nation one ran the risk of being regarded ridiculous. Today he makes himself ridiculous who denies the existence of a Jewish nation.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.