I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is no obstacle to opening our hearts and minds to others.

I don't want anything to take away from wrestling.

He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.

I consider what I do soul music, it's music that is concerned with the soul.

I never had to answer to anyone

Life helps those who help themselves.

People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul.