The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

She's no flibberti-gibberti mamzell, but a whir-stir-get-lost-sir bundla dynamite!

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

I don't dictate to anyone what to believe and what not to. And I don't want that to be dictated to me either.

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.