Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

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.

That I talk about that doesn't mean anything, that my name is like this doesn't mean anything... that I watch this and listen to this doesn't mean anything - Meaning of All By DeYth Banger

I've sent you roses many times. I've held your hand in mine

Sometimes you should be fake... to be honest is the thing which used against you... too much of you could kill ya.

I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

My mother was so house proud that when my father got up to sleepwalk she had the bed made by the time he got back.

You know what animals exist in the desert. He's going to his indigenous natural habitat. What better place for night crawlers?

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

Just sit and open your eyes and open your heart. It's dance theater.

My movies continue to be found and be sold because there's something going on in them.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.