We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

The minute what you think of as radical becomes an institutionalised, funded operation, you're in some trouble.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

As I keep saying, fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was.

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

Memory was that woman on the train. Insane in the way she sifted through dark things in a closet and emerged with the most unlikely ones - a fleeting look, a feeling. The smell of smoke. A windscreen wiper. A mother's marble eyes. Quite sane in the way she left huge tracts of darkness veiled. Unremembered.

Human rights takes history out of justice.