What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.

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.

Admit it. You can't have everything. You can't do everything. You can't be everywhere. You are not omnipotent, you are mortal.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Most of us go through each day looking for what we saw yesterday And, not surprisingly, that is what we find.

The best mask for demoralization is daring.

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.

Take me ham away, take away my eggs, even my Chili, but leave me my newspaper.