Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds.

What is noise to the old order is harmony to the new.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible.

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Man's tragedy is that when he can do something, in the end he will always do it

Global governance is just a euphemism for global government.

The first path a human being ever travels is the path that leads out of the maternal womb. Every human being's first labyrinth is that of a woman.

A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.

I wanted to fight in the Iraq war because I felt like I had an obligation as a human being to help free people from oppression.

There is something profoundly satisfying about sharing a meal. Eating together, breaking bread together, is one of the oldest and most fundamentally unifying of human experiences.

I don't take it for granted, because I saw the fruits of Stan's [Lee] 50-year labor, and I didn't have to wait 50 years myself.

I always believe in living in the country, because that's where what I eat is what I can put back in the dirt.

In Ireland, I don't get asked out much. English boys are a lot more flirty.

Your strengths develop your confidence; your weaknesses develop your faith.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

Yea, he's alright...but he's no Zach Braff.