I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.

The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be held accountable for the disasters is a transparently disingenuous innovation of the theologians.

Life itself is just a thin coat of paint on the planet, and we hold the paintbrush.

There’s simply no polite way to tell people they’ve dedicated their lives to an illusion.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself.

What you can imagine depends on what you know.

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

There may be things that are completely unknowable to us, so we must be careful not to treat the limits of our knowledge as sure guides to the limit of what there is.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

There is no polite way to suggest to someone that they have devoted their life to a folly.

When reaching for the stars, beware of those who want to cut off your hands.

Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

Where grows?--where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.

Prince Kanta was crazy!

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down.

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

We shouldn't be intimidated by someone else's idea of perfection if it will prevent us from taking steps we actively want to take.

We've always been observant of things, and I think Crackdown was very much like that and the film interpretation was that journalistic view of that situation.

They can ta'k our lives but they can never ta'k our freedom!' Now there's a battle cry not designed by a clear thinker