It is nationalism which engenders nations, and not the other way round.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.

A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.

Just as every girl should have a husband, preferably her own, so every culture must have its state, preferably its own.

People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.

Ideas, and even the detection of errors, require more than care and caution.

America was born modern; it did not have to achieve modernity, nor did it have modernity thrust upon it.

I am a humble adherent of...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.

Denial is a seductive ruse of our own making, force-fitting our agendas by forcing out truth all because we bent to fear rather than bowed to God.

I love you, Avery. Always. You completed my life. You made me whole, gave me hope, made me a better man. For me, you were everything right in my life." - Kane Dalton

My mum, in addition to trying to mutilate me with lobsters, always told me that shy kids get nothing.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

I have done a lot of theater.

At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres.

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Scars on the back are a swordsman’s shame.