Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

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.

Making time for what you really want to do can be a full-time job, but only if you allow it to be.

Life is existence with meaning

Why must one love rarely to love well?

If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the novel? A novel is a kind of exploration and discovery, for me at any rate.

Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

I don't know about carry out, but you can carry me off to bed.

I'm never a failure, unless I quit trying, and neither are you.

The Latino community, they're some of the most loyal fans on the planet.

The thing about this [Donald] Trump phenomenon is that there's a lot of good stuff in it; the anti-elitism, the concern for working class jobs.

On the first night it was on telly, Channel 4 had 17 complaints.