Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.

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.

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If you want something better for your life, you've got to start by believing you deserve it.

Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.

I use myself for each part. Naturally, it's my body, it's my soul, it's my feelings. That's the only way I know how to work. I couldn't pretend.

It’s time for women to stop being politely angry.

A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

I'm Liberace without a piano.

We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology.

I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.

However, research in the years that followed found that in many of its important features, African American Vernacular English was becoming not less, but more different from other dialects.