The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

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.

To retain our dignity, we must sometimes refuse to live life at any cost

A witch always exercises their body and mind.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

A society that decides its controversial issues by ballots does better than one that uses bullets – which, after all, is no more likely to lead to the right conclusion than voting.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

When I see you, I think "I wonder which face she sees when she looks into the mirror.

Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

I love vinyl, you know? To me it has depth, warmth, it's the best way to really sample.