It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. ….

We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings..

I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently..

Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining..

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing socie….

All we ever see of stars are their old photographs..

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the ….

I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writin….

I am watching the stars, admiring their complex trajectories through space and time. I am trying to give a name to the force that set them in motion..

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell..

It wasn't so much all the sex that robbed me of my moral bearings, but all the narcotics. I must say, there's something about opium that goes very we….

The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real y….

What does fighting crime mean, exactly? Does it mean upholding the law when a woman shoplifts to feed her children, or does it mean struggling to unc….

I've always wanted to explore characters of all races, all genders, all ages. It just seems to me to be a natural way to approach any kind of storyte….

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar sc….

When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know t….

But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet y….

I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. An….

You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it..

I think I'm a bit like a kind of shark, that if I stop swimming, I won't be able to breathe, something like that..

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they….