"People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of."

"There's a lot more power in calm than in vituperation."

"Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be."

"How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence."

"For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide."

"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."

"I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism."

"It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive."