Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Bias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided.

There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.

I was going to be a scientist.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

If I were a food, I'd be a Chili because you know.. I'm hot.

Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness...

I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

I've always felt kind of like an outsider, even when I was very successful back in the old days. Even then. I kind of enjoyed it, really.

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.