Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

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.

i was a prisoner of events

You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

I'm a great believer in luck and the extraordinary role that plays in all of our lives.

The same European governments that hesitated to confront terrorists were more than prepared to oppose us.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!