We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

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.

Readers love fantasy, but we need horror. Smart horror. Truthful horror. Horror that helps us make sense of a cruelly senseless world.

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.

There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

I'm not bald. I'm just taller than my hair.

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

When you first run up First Avenue in New York, if you don't get goose bumps, theres something wrong with you.

Finish your stories! Read a lot!

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.