A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

You can’t crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them. By refusing to think, refusing to change.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

There is no break in the wholeness of time.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.

Many fear mistakes. In TV and films you just re-shoot the scene. In life do the same and just shoot a re-take.

When you're surrounded by flowers, you breath better.

I am genuine, fun and passionate.

In terms of content, you can make a problem for yourself, I mean, make the contest difficult, let's say, with certain subject matter that is inherently dramatic.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.