Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

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.

Time and space are awash here.

Those that succeed most in life are those that see wisdom in life as a positive venture.

Do no drown me with mediocrity, give me passion, desire, make me inhale breaths of lust and love in the dark hours that tingle down my spine...

This is no honky-tonk parade. 1Q84 is the real world, where a cut draws real blood, where pain is real pain and fear is real fear. The moon in the sky is no paper moon.

I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.

A thousand fools believe a lie, and it's good as truth.

You owe dough? You ain't give up that cheese? Hey... Sooner or later, you'll Pay, Pal (no eBay).

Finally, people are starting to recognize freedom and peace do have a cause, they do have a price.

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.