A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism.

Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

It’s hard to forget, but forgiveness is something you do for yourself.

I don't have a girlfriend but sometimes I like to pretend I do. I just stand in my apartment screaming No, that's not what I said!

A job is a very healthy thing to do.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

How has anyone ever understood anyone, except through love, which is wordless?

Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.

Bruno, my old faithful. I haven't sufficiently described him. Is it enough to say he is indescribable? No. Better to try and fail than not to try at all.

Keep Right on to the End of the Road

The law is not a series of calculating machines where answers come tumbling out when the right levers are pushed.