Civilization is sterilization.

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.

In the world of emptiness, hope is a treasure to behold.

Recently I heard Sheryl Crow and I loved her, she was terrific.

I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past

The world seemed less scary and I started to like myself a little bit more.

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer

The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour.

The street is no place to race.

Life in this world is limited. Never be in the least bit afraid!

Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.