For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

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.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

I don’t know how long it’s been since I’ve been gone, but you have to move on. If not today, then someday soon.I love you, Ryden, I will always love you, but I’m not here anymore.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.

I love having the opportunity to surf.

Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

I had a wonderful time playing Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies. It was a real Bond villain, over the top, almost laughable but dangerous.