A right word counts the silence

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality

I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

People say love is a gift but i say love is a burden, loving someone and having to watch them be in love with someone else.

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.