The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

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've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

Dream big, but stay humble.

My favourite road I've ever been on ain't paved.

It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.

If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.

Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong, and get used to it.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.

God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America.