We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.

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.

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...

Grace rides inside the waves.

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

[Death:] The one inexorable thing!

Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble.

A civilization is always judged in its decline.

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.