You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society.

Death is the ultimate negative.

We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.