Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

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.

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.

The voice of Conscience has needed us to know again who we are in reality.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I'm 25 in the rest of the world, but I'm about 48 in actress years. I'm just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

Like the bee its sting, the promiscuous leave behind them in each encounter something of themselves by which they are made to suffer.

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

If you want to learn how to be happy, you have to know what is sadness first.

Too many trained nurses discommode Cupid.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasnt such a big fan.

In our dreams, we can't see anything that we haven't put it there!