Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.

The sicker our fans get, the sicker we'll get

We're nowhere near democracy. I've been released, that's all.

We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it should be, and also what it must not be.

If you play a part that's been done before, on stage for instance, you feel like you're carrying a torch and staggering under the weight of it for a bit and then passing it on to somebody else.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

I don't have a horror film in me just because I don't like to be scared. But I definitely have a documentary in me, and I certainly have dramas.

I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.