You brothers-such a nest of rivalries. I warned him to make you sisters, that it would make things more civilized. He thought I was joking, I wasn't." - Malcador

The New Testament is a manifestation of God in the flesh.

We are all 'foreigners' to [the remainder of: the human race minus our countrymen].

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue.

I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.

I go to a very visual place when I'm singing. It's very cinematic and I get this feeling of space. I love when music does that.

I'd never seen anyone do a rebuttal review to some of the reviews.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.