I believe we have to put art back at the center of everyday life rather than allowing it to become a specialist activity at the margins of society.
Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in.
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.
I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.
There's not a lesbian hero that everybody can relate to.
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.
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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