When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action.

Would the media insist on having a Holocaust-denier to balance any report about the Second Word War?

I've always been a bit ambitious, but I do think the Green Party is the real opposition.

Overall, becoming a carbon-neutral country would involve changes in our behaviour, but these are modest compared with the changes that will be forced upon us if we do nothing.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Greatness is a property for which no man can receive credit too soon

Worry divides the mind.

I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary.

Darkness is where we begin and where we end. We don't usually see light traveling in darkness of space because we only can see its reflection on substance.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

You have to have a very strong cash flow for a film to really stay in theaters. You have to have the advertising capacity to sustain and follow the kind of press coverage.

Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another chance?

There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

People think I like partying, but I actually don't like going out. I'm a homebody. I like chilling in with friends and playing PlayStation 3 Pro Evolution Soccer.