Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

Ladies who were no better than they should be, whose dresses were too tight, too bright and too all the things Magnus liked most, lounged on velvet-covered benches along the walls.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

NOTHING is worth hurting yourself over. NOTHING is worth taking your life over, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.

I was built for the long run, not for the short dash, I guess.

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.