Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

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.

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.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

Middle age is when, whenever you go on holiday, you pack a sweater.

To awake from death is to die in peace.

I get heartbroken flying into L.A. It's just this feeling of unspecific loss. Can you imagine what the San Fernando Valley was when it was all wheat fields? Can you imagine what John Steinbeck saw?

Still for fun, I play the drums, but I don't do much recording with them.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.