"We have to make sure that a fair share of the tax revenues remain in our country."

“I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.”

“Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.”

Source : Charles Stuart Calverley (1865). “Verses and Translations”, p.61

“I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.”

“I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.”

“I want a formal apology from the mayor.”

“To assault the total culture totally is to be free to use all the fruits of mankind's wisdom and experience without the rotten structure in which these glories are encased and encrusted.”

“No, no, it's not all random, if it really was all random, the universe would abandon us completely. and the universe doesn't. it takes care of its most fragile creations in ways we can't see. like with parents who adore you blindly. and a big sister who feels guilty for being human over you. and a little gravelly-voiced kid whose friends have left him over you. and even a pink-haired girl who carries your picture in her wallet. maybe it is a lottery, but the universe makes it all even out in the end. the universe takes care of all its birds.”

“I have no shame around the fact that I can be shot into suicidal feelings by certain people's treatment of me. I am no different to any other person, I therefore act as I believe any other person should be free to.”