You are a stranger, I am a stranger, we all remain strangers, and nevertheless we can like or even love each other.

You judge a society by the decency of living of the weakest

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff.

Questioning the ostensibly unquestionable premises of our way of life is arguably the most urgent of services we owe our fellow humans and ourselves.

For one to be free there must be at least two.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

We belong to talking, not what talking is about... Stop talking - and you are out. Silence equals exclusion.

The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of.

The value of other people is that they have something unique to offer.

The planet is full and we will be rubbing shoulders forever. There is nowhere else to go.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Yeah I know you're a creature of the night. Bringer of death, sucker of blood, needer of tans, so on and so forth. And oddly enough, I'm still unimpressed.

To joy in conquest is to joy in the loss of human life.

I grew up in the indie world and that's what I'm used to, but there's something really incredible about having money behind a film and having the time to do as many takes as you want.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

Everybody has their 15 minutes, and those 15 minutes should be spent in a private limo and a private plane. It's the ultimate.