Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I wouldn't say pop stars hit on me - that's just stuff the papers make up.

Just because one pedophile is a football coach, please don't turn against all pedophiles.

I'm a business person at heart.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

We have now reached a turning point in the struggle between freedom and terror.

...weary of k knowing too much and understanding too little.

The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.