You know, they say in France that translation is like a woman: she is either beautiful or faithful.

Life is too short to be lived badly.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

All big changes of the world come from words.

Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.

When we're afraid, we lose all sense of analysis and reflection. Our fear paralyzes us. Besides, fear has always been the driving force behind all dictators' repression.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

My mother always told me I had to do 100 times better than a man. I had to work hard at maths, and learn four languages.

The world is not about Batman and Robin fighting the Joker; things are more complicated than that. And nothing is scarier than the people who try to find easy answers to complicated questions.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.

Love is hateWar is PeaceNo is YesAnd we're all free.

The living sinners on deadly ground.

... my heart skips a beat. Seriously, like a CD from the public library, it goes ZZebbTTT and skips.

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe.

Your husband or your wife is the only person you can really choose to be your family and to have unconditional love with them.

There's two kinds of love, one is wrong and one is right.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

Some traders still think that a computer could not trade as well as they can.

There is no regional art. The only region left is the art magazine.