The idea that if people are just friendly and demonstrate they want peace, that will be answered with good will - that is really naive.

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.

Islam is not a race...Islam is simply a set of beliefs, and it is not 'Islamophobic' to say Islam is incompatible with liberal democracy.

There is a huge difference between being tolerant and tolerating intolerance

Tolerance of intolerance is cowardice.

The more we oblige, the more we self-censor, the more we appease, the bolder the enemy gets.

I love life more than I love death.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.

I was a Muslim once, remember, and it was when I was most devout that I was most full of hate.

Where there is no freedom of speech, there is no conscience.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

There were problems with having a reputation like his. Folks either wanted your hide or wanted you to save theirs. There was never any happy, indifferent middle ground.

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

The thought of killing myself had slowed me down to five miles per hour. The thought of killing someone else stopped me completely.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

The [President's] Nomination, of Course, brings the Subject fully under the Consideration of the Senate; who have then a Right to decide upon its Propriety or Impropriety.

The year after I graduated from high school, they came to shoot Mr. and Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City.

I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi.

I should have mixed something stronger than Coke floats.