It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

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.

Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, change for your own good and stop looking out to others for your happiness.

I've never made a movie I wasn't surprised to see.

If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.

It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.

In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.

At the end of 2003, my game was complete. Shooting, defense, using the dribble, transition, midrange stuff was all there. Then it was about fine-tuning and trying to improve in each area.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

Every fresh acquirement is another remedy against affliction and time.

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.