I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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.

Alcohol was for people who basically wished to be dead but lacked the courage to kill themselves.

I must say I am not pleased to have to arrange the Senate schedule around the availability of Senators who are running for President.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

My life now could not be better.

For me, I've lived a life as an athlete.

The system of plunder derives much of its support from individuals who do not subscribe to socialism but who say, 'We're paying for it, so we might as well get our share'

The things which must be must be for the best.

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.