Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

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.

What I must know, only the Master teaches!

Living is not the sole purpose of life—loving is.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

The weird nihilism that permeates Mellon Collie is extremely relevant to what's going on right now. So many kids are intelligent and articulate, but they don't know what to do with themselves.

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.

Resentments are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my saber.

I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.