Art is whatever you can get away with.

All media work us over completely.

The wheel… is an extension of the foot. The book… is an extension of the eye…Clothing, an extension of the skin…Electric circuitry, an extension of the central nervous system.

How can one maintain a theological confidence in what one claims to be _true_ while acknowledging the existence of multiple religions that also claim to be _true_?

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

I failed, I failed, and that is about all that can be said about it.

Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.

There's always this weird dark humor within a lot of Depeche Mode songs that people miss, tongue-in-cheek and also very British.

There's nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

The humanitarian argument is so selective I find it difficult to swallow. It's not even so much about the choice as to where we should get involved and where we shouldn't.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.