I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

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.

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.

Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

Your life can only be as free as your perception of it

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.

I wasn't sure I could make it through another hour of his company without throwing my stapler at his head.

She that asks Her dear five hundred friends, contemns them all, And hates their coming.