Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

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.

Love is a combination of friendship, passion, and respect.

Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.

Thoughts of harmony allow experiences of harmony.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

Slavery is a foul contagion in the human character.

For me, nothing brings out my 'born yesterday' idiotic qualities quite like having my photograph taken.

People pay me for my thoughts and my dreams. I think in that sense I'm very fortunate.

We build our character from the bricks of habit we pile up day by day.