You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don’t work hard, it won’t matter.
The modern state is characterized by its ability to concentrate and use power in a way that premodern states could not.
There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. Then a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.
The artist must be a dancer of the invisible.
Love is the only thing that can save us from ourselves.