Debt is part of the human condition. Civilization is based on exchanges - on gifts, trades, loans - and the revenges and insults that come when they are not paid back.

Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

I would not change [my past work] anymore than I would airbrush a photo of myself.

I don't think it's a question of whether you eat meat. It's a question of what kind of meat, and where it comes from.