This is the way the world really ends: not with whimper but a desperate chuckle.
It is perfectly reasonable to despair of a world where the Nobel Committee gives the Peace Prize to a man running a war.
Everybody should be entitled to one lie, one failing, one infidelity.
There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.
I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.
The other side of reverence is loathing.
War is always a failure. It means we've failed in diplomacy and we've failed in talking to one another.
I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.
I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven't had at least that, what have you had?
I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.
If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.
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