Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint.

Humor is the mask of wisdom.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Above all, be suspicious of your fatherland. Nobody is more inclined to become a murderer than a fatherland.

Our science has become terrible, our research dangerous, our findings deadly. We physicists have to make peace with reality. Reality is not as strong as we are. We will ruin reality.

It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

I don't think the government should touch art. Governments are risk averse. They encourage risk-averse personalities to be artists.

It might be a move in six months. But I'll make up my mind. I'll have a look at where I've been and where I want to go and I'll continue in that way.

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

Dream big dreams, but never forget that realistic short-term goals are the keys to your success.

I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?

Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth... and to the maximum of power, I exhort all other men to do the same.

While there are things with this job that remain constant, in terms of how you shoot, the actual crux of the character is always different and always evolving.

We are for religion against the religions.