... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

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.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

Suffering ceases to be suffering when you have a redemptive perspective.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Maybe he murdered Myrtle; that would’ve done everyone a favor. . . .

What a woman should know -When to just let him zone out on video games, his computer, or phone. -When to let him control the day or situation. -When to just shut up and kiss him.

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

All about a dollar like four quarters.

There is no such thing as taking too much time, because your soul is in that picture.