"If you give me Times Square, I want to give it back to the people."

"I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together."

"When I was little, I didn't really travel - from the suburbs to Paris was already a journey. I had a foreigner's eye on the city, and I still enjoy that point of view. Then there's the fact that one of the things that touches me most is injustice."

"The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other."

"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."

"Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority."

"The “teenager” seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding."

"I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome."