To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

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.

An intelligent man is one who acknowledges his intelligence as that of those who surround him.

Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't use drugs. That may be boring for some people, but that's just me. That's how I live my life.

The idea of happiness for me is being in tune with all around me, at one with all that is. Awareness of our interconnectedness. Harmony.

Love each other, even strangers. Nothing in the world matters more.

Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint.

I think people in general have neglected to learn about history.

If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

Architects are the new comedians.