The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

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.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The deceiver loses when there is correct response from the deceived...

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting and of all relationships.

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I have no private life, as I am constantly under police surveillance.

Contentment is a pearl of great price

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

Right,” I said. “So the baboon, the crocodile…any other pets I should know about?” Amos thought for a moment. “Visible ones? No, I think that’s it.

Truth in our ideas means their power to work.