History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

To call the Form [of the Good] eternal is misleading: that something lasts forever does not render it any the better, any more than long-enduring whiteness is whiter than ephemeral whiteness.

Socialism has been preached for so long the British people no longer have any sense of personal responsibility.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

After an encounter with the living Son of the living God, nothing is ever again to be as it was before.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

[Mannerism is when] you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.

Al Gore is an heir to the old czars and commissars. He never saw a regulation he didn't like.

Men are men and women are women, but the men are dumber than the women, usually.