Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

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 truth, the all moving magic, the single handed spark of it all wasI found art. And this saved my life.

Work hard. "Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.

'Breaking Bad.' Because it's the best American narrative fiction of the last ten years.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

... the keynote of government is injustice.

Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

Every single day that you walk outside your house is something new and different and exciting.

I pick and choose what I want to do at any given time, and what not to do, importantly. My agents, I won't hear about any offers or options.

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.