Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

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.

No army has ever done so much with so little.

Virgos are very faithful. I'm a faithful friend. I'm a faithful lover.

Powerful men often succeed through the help of their wives. Powerful women only succeed in spite of their husbands.

Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.

A dog doesn't want very much and is happy with that. A cat doesn't know what he wants and wants more of it.

It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation matters so much. We need to change the default.

In our natural body every part has a necessary sympathy with every other; and all together form, by their harmonious conspiration, a healthy whole.

Broken crayons still colour the same

But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.