Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.

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.

Just because you are soft doesn't mean you are not a force. Honey and wildfire are both the colour gold.

If two people who love eachother are soul mates, then there will always be a empty hole in my soul waiting for you..

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

Sit down and read. Educate yourself for the coming conflicts.

Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.

With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.

But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it.

I'm not really married to the craft of jazz - I'm married to me, and my style, and whatever I produce.