Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

We tend to think of the problems of globalization and cultural identity as peculiar to our times. In fact they are rooted in ancient problems of civic belonging.

If anyone is tweeting right now, I'm not pulling a knife on David Cronenberg!

I hold to the idea that civility, understood as the willingness to engage in public discourse, is the first virtue of citizens.

How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?

Dreams are evidence that we are creatures who produce more meaning than we can ourselves understand.

We are capitalism made flesh.

We don't know what the future will bring, but that's because we are ever in the process of creating it, not because it is an alien force to which we have to submit.

Ambition is ever tempered by experience. Otherwise, fortune makes fools of us all.

He shook his head. "Those waves are begging us to ride them. Talking can wait.

I think if there was a boarding school for personality makeovers, you'd probably get a scholarship.

I certainly liked performing [Patrick Bateman], but it was because he thinks he's so [bloody] cool and just the [stuff], but is really such a cheesy dork.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger

Theory is needed to tell you where to look.

... we ought to be astonished at nothing; for what do we not meet with in our journey through life?

every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all.

The Dharma is a very, very special and precious thing. The more you practice it, the more you will realize this.