Calamitous collapse is better than mediocre defeat!

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.

War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.

This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.

Different is not wrong.

I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.