"I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at."

“To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.”

“My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'”

“People who live in states have as a rule never experienced the state of nature and vice-versa, and have no practical possibility of moving from the one to the other ... On what grounds, then, do people form hypotheses about the relative merits of state and state of nature? ... My contention here is that preferences for political arrangements of society are to a large extent produced by these very arrangements, so that political institutions are either addictive like some drugs, or allergy-inducing like some others, or both, for they may be one thing for some people and the other for others.”

“The musty smell, the bugs, the lonliness, this room, which is part of the street outside-this is all I want from life.”

“Advertising is a symbol-manipulating occupation”

“We're living in a time when people are struggling to appear perfect.”

Source : "Q&A: Shirley Manson and Butch Vig of Garbage Talk About Their Comeback, and Why Manson was the Lana Del Rey of the 90s". Interview with Marc Spitz, www.vanityfair.com. March 22, 2012.

“Whatever device you use... Windows will be there. ... Windows will be everywhere on every device without compromise.”

“If you wish to attain to true knowledge of the Scriptures, hasten to acquire first an unshakeable humility of heart. That alone will lead you, not to the knowledge that puffs up, but to that which enlightens, by the perfecting of love.”