As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

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.

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

Improvement is not enough, you also need innovation.

And kindness is a weakness. I can see that now. But it's a weakness I'm still not sure I'd want to give up entirely .

Sometimes, I think we're afraid to admit we want certain things. Especially things that contradict the image we have of ourselves.

I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.