Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

A liberal society cannot be defended by herbivores. We need carnivores to save us, but we had better make sure the meat-eaters hunt only on our orders.

Well, I'm an absolute fan of lacy lingerie. I want to make that perfectly clear.

There's a civic nationalism in Britain and dozens of other countries.

There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

An intellectual may be interested in ideas and policies for their own sake, but a politician's interest is exclusively in the question of whether an idea's time has come.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

There are lots of nations in the world or national peoples who don't yet have states. They're inside someone else's state and they want a state of their own.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Never mind, just make it fun, nice and useful.

Natural beauty products are a must! I use coconut oil-based RMS makeup, and I slather almond oil on my hands to soak while I watch a movie.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model.

Every law is an infraction of liberty.

Virtually the second I get home, I change into my "home" clothes - yoga pants and a T-shirt.

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the law of causation.