What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?

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.

You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Relating a person to the whole world: that is the meaning of cinema.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

If you become more concerned for the welfare of others, you will experience a sense of calm, inner-strength, and self confidence.

Over the past 40 years, the tradition of Southern progressivism has been somewhat successfully erased by right-wing revisionist historians.

Within crisis, are the seeds of opportunity.

The devil is God's ape!

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.