Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.

I already am eating from the trash can all the time. The name of this trash can is ideology. The material force of ideology makes me not see what I am effectively eating.

We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious.

Thinking begins when you ask really difficult questions.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Books are a stairway to knowledge

Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.

I don't want people to love me. It makes for obligations.

I mean maybe I was holding all the aces, but what was the game?

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.

You can make anything out of anything.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.