Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

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.

The child is the father of the man.

They’re criminal, but I’m a villain in someone’s untold story.

Perception through emptiness is existential, as the transience of all phenomena affirms the indivisibility of existence itself, before, within and behind all manifestation.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.

I think people have to be given - or take - the permission to say that something is nothing. Just because it's in a museum doesn't mean it's anything.

I like the idea of knowing that somebody somewhere made a difference so that your life could be better.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement