After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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.

Your calling should be your work

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.

The best part about being with a group is that you don't have to do everything alone. You're with your friends.

The one thing which you have to abandon unconditionally is your self.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

The sentence completes its signification only with its last term.

I just try to make sure that when I get there on the floor, I play as hard as I can and try to do everything I can to help the team win.

I have always loved reading. Ever since I was a young girl I had a book by my bed and would get lost in the world of make believe.

Always Postpone Meetings with Time-wasting Morons