It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

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.

If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

When you start thinking, you will lose your contact with the crowds!

It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one.

I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

When I'm not working or promoting something, I try to be as under-the-radar as I can .