I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that anyone who opposed them must be either stupid and decieved or have some ulterior motive. We are today a nation where almost everyone in the public eye displays fanaticism with every utterance.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

'I could kill you like this,' Peter whispered. 'Just press and press until you're dead'.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them.... I destroy them.