Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth.

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.

Cannot put a finger on what precedes the other, bachelor/spinsterhood or self-obsession.

Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.

We're all monsters. We're all careless and cruel in the end.

I don't really have a lot of fun playing just straight good guys. It's not my thing. It's like Tom Hanks territory.

The same battle in the clouds will be known to the deaf only as lightning and to the blind only as thunder.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

I have written a book it's called "Stronger Together."

Shut up, be happy. Obey all orders without question. The happiness you have demanded is now mandatory.

Heap high the farmer's wintry hoard! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn!

I'll just let my work speak for itself, as every artist should.