Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation.

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.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

Grief, it seemed, drove Voldemort out...though Dumbledore, of course, would have said that it was love.

The past is a shadow, so I hid in the darkness. Little did I know I was made myself the unsuspecting prey of unseen predator. For only in light can you can you see what is dark.

Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

"This isn’t really death," Tyler says, "We’ll be legend. We won’t grow old." I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you’re thinking of vampires.

The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat.

Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

For softball, we need the Olympics. For young girls dreaming of that Olympic dream, that's where it's at, and that's where it all started in '96 for our sport.

Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.