On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.