You will never be tougher than you are now. Children are the toughest creatures on the planet. They endure.

No harm in listening. Alexei's a child, not a wizard. We don't lose control of our brains by listening.

Stories can start revolutions.

It's inhuman to take your books away before you know the end.

Cowardice is for cowards. Fear is for people with brains and eyes and functioning nerve endings.

Wolves are the witches of the animal world.

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

If I die young, everybody's going to say they saw it coming.

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.

We're more Christian than the Pope. And, I mean, that's not our religion. We pray to the Gods of our conquerors... all black and brown people.

I never notice what is said about me. I am credited with things I have never done, and abused for them. It would be idle to attempt to contradict newspaper talk and street rumors.

What place does a woman have here, in the realm of men?

If there is a God, he is a malign thug.

Blaming things on the past does not make them better.

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.