The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously.

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.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

I don't like to sell my finest pieces.

I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there.

I'm a fan of James Frain's work, especially in 'True Blood.' He was so awesome in that show.

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

Steve Fister is a great guitar player. He's ROCKIN'!!