The beautiful must be incongruous.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

It’s not the light that’s attracting me, but the darkness that’s driving me on.

For us life is a fact, no less, and, above all, no more.

Feeling threatened by others' choices pulls us all down. Instead, we should funnel our energy into breaking this cycle.

Racism doesn't have to fit our stereotypes for what it is in order for it to hurt - but it also means that tools for dismantling the system don't have it fit our stereotype either.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

This personal freedom to think and feel and speak authentically and to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

One of the things that would steer me away from a franchise is that I'm playing the same character all the time and I wouldn't want to be known for that.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

I think revolution happens when you distrust anything in its current state, including yourself.