A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

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.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.