Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

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.

Peace is always pleasant, always kind.

He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.

Strength is not created by adversity

What's the use of askin' a man to execute if he can't execute?

Photographers stop photographing a subject too soon before they have exhausted the possibilities.

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

From SpongeBob to Finding Nemo ... I'm still trying to decide which one I like more.

People think I'm an overnight success. No. It's just that you all found me overnight.

I think there's nothing new going on. Except that, you're even more public than you've ever been.There's some good and some bad to that.