People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

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.

True courage is knowing not when to take a life, but to save one.

Next to motherhood, I personally believe that being an author is the best job in the world.

When I see someone like Richard Dawkins, I see my father. I grew up with that. I'm basically the child of Richard Dawkins.

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.

The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play. That's why we have to destroy the present politico-economic system.

It's disappointing to know that someone can see right through you.

Leave the oil in the soil, leave the coal in the hole.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

We all make terrible mistakes in our lives.

Can I take advantage of you in the limo?” His eyes laughed at me. “By all means, angel mine.