I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness.

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.

He was my best friend and I needed him.

Every person is responsible for his own looks after 40.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.

In a way, artists are shamans, facilitators who take what's there, channel it through themselves, then put it out there for people to appreciate.

Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

If you want to do something, anything, with all your heart, you will find a way.

People tend to shrink with age, especially after age 50 or so. It has to do with spaces between the joints amount of cartilage and posture. Bone length does not change.