“I wouldn't presume to define noir - if we could define it, we wouldn't need to use a French word for it - but it seems to me it's more a way of looking at the world than what one sees.”
“We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us.”
“Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”
“What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.”
“They say: it's a cruel world but I say: it's just a world, we define it with our actions and reactions..”
“I wouldn't change what happened to me because then I wouldn't have this chance, in front of all of you, to embrace more people than I ever could have with two arms.”