That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

Similarly, only people as misanthropic as myself can be counted on not to have to lie to others, since we have the unique luxury of not caring what sort of opinions others formulate about us.

It's not difficult for me to hide emotion, since I've always hidden it in my personal life.

If fame belonged to me, I could not escape her; if she did not, the longest day would pass me on the chase, and the approbation of my dog would forsake me.

There is no set period of time or total amount of carbon emissions that we can stay below to ensure we stay safe.

There is always joy in achieving ,but the greater satisfaction lies in sharing the achievement.

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.

You defended your Medicaid expansion by invoking God.

My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.

Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.