Plato believed that insanity was essential to our nature and assumed that it held esoteric knowledge about who we are.

I rehearsed Foucault's argument that the presence of madness on our doorstep is good for us, for it reminds us the life we live is only one among several human possibilities.

Evil people always support each other; that is their chief strength.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

After about 15 minutes, you feel that you're winning them over.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.

I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam - good people, yes, but any religion based on a single...

Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

A movie set or any set is a completely private place and it feels very insulated.