All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

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.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

I sometimes wonder about this True-Love thing and I get confused. Love--as I now understand it--has to be true if it's there.

People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.

I was a failure in Boston...because they thought I was too fashionable to be intelligent, and a failure in New York because they were afraid I was too intelligent to be fashionable.

Sobriety is concern for one's health - or limited capacity.

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.

Reach what you cannot

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.