One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

Answers based in truth are the foundation of wisdom.

Scratch a “libertarian” these days, and you will find...a leftist.

Pop is about speaking everybody's language. The imagery and iconography we instantly recognize. When you can rely on things that the public already knows, you're dealing with Pop.

You should find what sets you on fire, what you are passionate about, and then you should do that. No matter the risk.

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

You can't get someone to like something they aren't feeling. After you press play, there isn't anything you can do.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

When someone transitions you should refer to them by their new name both in the present and with references back in time.

My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.