Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.

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.

Belief is blind but with patience it too shall become apparent in due time.

The atmospheric intensity of two electric lovers is the most righteous place I need to rediscover.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays.

I'm a big believer in anesthesia. I think it should be used for every medical procedure, indlucing routine physicals.

Jesus Christ, is this an NPR convention?

People who become used to saying little become used to feeling little.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

I always thought I was singing American folk music.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.