A conscience can be a dangerous thing

I don’t want to kill you, but I must. For the good of the country.

Either you’re with me or you’re against me. I can’t afford to be looking over my shoulder all the time waiting for you to stick a knife in my back.

Cora blamed the people who wrote it down. People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident.

Usually, when we talk about creativity, it's about self-expression, which is great, but for work to be art or design, there has to be someone on the other end. The audience makes the work come alive.

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.

Negotiations are about controlling things, about being in the driver's seat and make one tiny mistake; you're dead. I made one tiny mistake, I wore women's clothes

The era of the Single Savior is over. What is needed now is joint action, combined effort, collective co-creation.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

At some point I decided I didn't want to learn any more guitar technique. I was at that level where the next mountain there was to climb was Van Halen and I didn't really like Van Halen.

In my family, Fashion was something we never talked about, it was thought of as kind of superficial.

Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.