One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

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.

Eventually everyone will give up on you

Feeling - what authentic human fun!

We tend to regard ourselves as puppets of the Past, driven along by something that is always behind us.

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong - or you are absolutely right.

God has nothing to say to the self-righteous.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

It's a skill that I worked all my life, and it's been taken away. That's kind of tough to take.

Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.

Let all the poison that lurks in the mud, hatch out.

There are things that I refuse to deal with except through my music... because I don't trust humanity that much, and I don't know if I trust me that much. But I trust the songs.