"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

“Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.”

“Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.”

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

“Service is the rent we pay for living.”

“One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are ha!" Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe "no more than robots!”

Source : "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

“The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.”

Source : Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.368, Crown Forum

“Between films you try to fill your life with hobbies; acting is really so satisfying when you're doing it, and definitely feeds your imagination and creativity to a great degree, but you can't really take much away from it to show for it. I try to fill my time with other things.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”