When you're writing, you're making decisions about compression and the shape of a life, which are very similar to how we experience our inner consciousness.

Men want to destroy the women: you've become bigger than me, people love you more, you have a public platform, that's my space you're taking up. I can't just divorce you, I have to destroy you.

The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.

Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.

People don't give up power and privilege out of the goodness of their hearts.

We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.

The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.

The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

Eleanor Marx was a pragmatic person of actions and deeds and she was an organizer.

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always bang up against history.

Whate'er th' Almighty's subsequent command His first command is this - "Man love thyself."

I found I have to stay painting.

When it comes to Iran and ISIS, the enemy of your enemy is your enemy!

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

Friendship by its very nature consists in loving, rather than in being loved.

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.' To live alone?' To live. With what you are.

Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.

The Qur'an says speak not of those who are slain in the way of God as "dead," or die in the way of Allah as "dead," "they are alive, but you perceive not."

My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all.