... science must sometimes be treated as a possible enemy.

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

No social stability without individual stability.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.

The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.

As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.

I tried to become a hawk, it didn't work. I think I got -stuck

Now, if you want to do realistic, kind of heavier acting stuff, you do it on Amazon or Netflix or whatever or HBO.

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

The question of engineering should be of interest not only to those of us who are engineers, but to the entire public which lives in an engineering world

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

It is entirely possible that Limbaugh himself never needed contraception in college, but virtue in the absence of opportunity is hardly a moral triumph.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.