The internet is now a forum for public prosecution.

Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.

The only authentic literature of the modern era is the owner’s manual.

But so strong is our desire for meaning, an innate desire, that we construct meanings where there are none.

Send these images of me through the internet out into the universe, where I will continue my out-of-body existence.

We’re all photojournalists now. It’s no longer enough just to write.

To not be photographed daily, even by oneself, to not be recorded and videoed and dispersed into the turbulent winds of the net, was to court nonexistence.

If you are not afraid of the dark, the darkness will start being afraid of you!

You can never tell how much drive that lies in you until you discover your true passion in life.

The biggest enemies we have to overcome on the road to success are not lack of ability and lack of opportunity but fears of failure and rejection and the doubts that they trigger.

Austerity is not part of the European treaties; democracy and the principle of popular sovereignty are.

I always direct the same film. I can't distinguish one from the other.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

A novelist who ranks with Proust , Kafka , Musil and his friend James Joyce as one of the enduring pillars of Modernism.

I'm going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.

I like gardening. I'm really a nature man. I spend as much time as I can in nature. I feel really safe there.

Our brains do not have to be fixed, they can be plastic.