We would like to think of death as a release from the pressures of existence, but this is a fatally mistaken thought: it is the ultimate culmination of those pressures.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

Is it not ignorance that we share? A lie takes two. The truth we find alone.

Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!

Infatuation is measured in pleasure. Love is measured in pain. Behold the value of pain!

Wisdom doesn’t come only from the experience you have had, but from the experience you have chosen not to have.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

To measure up takes skill, but to err is an art.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

Stereotypes are based on the idea that two heads are bigger than one.

Now she knew living was just a brief hiatus, a blip really, in the infinite line of nothingness that composed that shadowy realm of the unknown. It could stop at any time.

Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.

So people ought to be free to leave here, but there ought to be opportunity for them to come home.

Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

No state on earth can afford to allow several authorities to co-exist next to one another.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

We know that urban farms require less fuel for tractors and transport, but community gardens don't plant themselves.