Women are much more honourable than men.

It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.

How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do.

Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.

Security is no replacement for liberty.

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.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.