Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

The race was on

I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival.

I like feeling a sense of unity with the crowd even though everybody might be thinking something different.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

Time is an optical illusion- never quite as soild or strong as we think it is

Hire for character, train for skills.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

I do not assume that woman is better than man. I do assume that she has a different way of looking at things.