“If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”

“To oppose something is to maintain it… To be sure, if you turn your back on [something] and walk away from it, you are still on the [same] road. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.”

“There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.”

“Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.”

“To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.”

“You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love.”