It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

War is capitalism with the gloves off.

the natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.