Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine.

In searching for the self, one cannot simultaneously be the hunter and the hunted.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by category-disciplines.

Chronicles are not explanatory of what they record.

To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had said was the last word.

... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

The only thing that holds you back from your success is fear of the unknown

If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.

You can make a feature that makes millions but only so many people see it. With a hit TV show, every week you'll have 16 million - 20 million people watching you.

Let me know the way, before there's hell to pay.

I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful.

It takes more than one dove to make peace in the Middle East.

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.