The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.

Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.

Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.

History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.

I've been a perfect lady my entire life, and somebody just tried to shoot me, anyway. Grandmother was wrong. Goodness is not its own reward.

In the world of old memories, there's room for visitors

I don't know about voodoo, but I believe in destiny.

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Never mind about the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches.

We are rapidly moving into the post-industrial age, when we must redefine what is "productive" work, as more and more jobs are being replaced by automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence.