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.

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

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

Revolutions have always started in cafés.

There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.

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

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