It had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife. (Sebastian Barnack assessing a Roederer 1916 champagne in Time Must Have a Stop)

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.

When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!

You're still alive. That means you're winning.

Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.

Within walking distance of any spot on Earth there's probably more than enough mystery to investigate in a lifetime.

Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

Negative thinking is always expensive--dragging us down mentally, emotionally, and physically--hence I refer to any indulgence in it as a luxury.

Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity, but with it you can accomplish miracles.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.