I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

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.

To have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed by the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation.

Anyone who takes the risk of leaving God for a while, risks his life in eternity.

I wanted to touch him, to tell him that even if everyone left everyone, I would never leave him, he talked and talked, his words fell through him, trying to find the floor to his sadness.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

I was an economist now turning into a human being - as if these are two different things. I don't know but I did that and then I had no vision.

Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.