The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.

...most Substance-addicted people are also addicted to thinking, meaning they have a compulsive and unhealthy relationship with their own thinking.

This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

This is why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions 'why' and 'to what' grow real beaks and claws.

We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately (...) To games or needles, to some other person.

Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?

There's nothing more difficult than a line.

God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.

The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".

If you are bored, you are not paying attention.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

Storm the castle Stem the tide Rise above yourself Cry baby cry Cry cry to heaven If that doesn't do it for you Go ahead and cry like hell

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]