In all activities of life, the secret of efficiency lies in an ability to combine two seemingly incompatible states: a state of maximum activity and a state of maximum relaxation.

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.

I overcome the fear of losing.I overcome the fear of changing.I let go of what is going.I allow what is coming.

I'm a teen boy, so I like seeing blood and guts. I know it's fake, but I'm having fun.

I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.

In the New Yorker library, I have long been shelved between Nadine Gordimer and Brendan Gill; an eerie little space nestled between high seriousness of purpose and legendary lightness of touch.

Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

Goals determine what your going to be

For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.

Being with a kid always takes you to being a kid somehow, and they really are showing me a childhood I might not have had in some way.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.