Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

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.

We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves.

The world is not a ‘thing’ (eternal element). It is a wrong belief (vikalp) of the Soul.

A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.

Punishment follows close on crime.

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

If my clothing does stand out, then I guess it's a compliment, but I just wear whatever feels comfortable.

I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting!

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

In television, the creator is really the voice...