Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Let the fires of truth burn away your false life and your excuses, fears, blaming, doubts and illusions of insignificance.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us

Ehe, 24 hours have gone from my father dead. It was yesterday, he suicided yesteday in the morning. Even and more than 24 hours!

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

Our strength in finance has led us to set up an international financial centre with medium and long-term objectives, especially to develop Islamic financial and insurance services.

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times.

I have no idea what's next, I simply don't have a clue.

I'm not at all funny. I can do dark comedy pretty well, but straight-up comedy, I don't know. I'm much darker. I've been like that since I was 3 years old

Hopped up out the bed / Turn my swag on