The success of a society depends on its ability to balance the demands of individual freedom with the need for social cohesion.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

I used to walk down the street like I was a star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.

Literature is the memory of humanity, a bridge between past and future.

"Sound can shape a space as much as any physical structure."