A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
“I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.”
“Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”