There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.

Every day is a gift. Every thought is a lift. Every hour is a prize. Use it and be wise.

Never talk back to a teacher. Teachers are like God. Actually, teachers are God's boss.

in every pleasure, cruelty has its place...

We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.

If you don't feel you have something to prove every day, you'll never improve

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

You're always learning about this thing everytime you pick it up

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.