[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.

Hearts can deceive. Words can deceive. But eyes we should trust.

Impossible loves. I am very much afraid they can become an addiction.

I will lead mankind into a new world! You cannot kill me! No man can murder me!

I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared.

My task is not to tyrannize but to destroy tyrants.

The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

Creative thinking begins by embracing your naiveté and rejecting the obvious in favor of the unusual, the extraordinary, the evocative and or the new.

Art is the business of selling fetishes, sacred relics once touched by genius: what the forger offers the gullible buyer is not art, it is "authenticity

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.

If I seem to you to change my state and alter my condition, I do not change my mind. I try always to be Hutten, never to desert myself, but to walk with equanimity through the unequal scenes of life.

Every burned book enlightens the world.

Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

Nobody who's ever been to Gulag is a pacifist.