Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.

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.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.

Maybe I could survive in one of those resort prisons where they house white-collar criminals. I've always wanted to get better at tennis.

To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.

Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

The absolute nothingness of death is a blessing. Something to look forward to.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

What this means is that people are seeing a stable business, which is good, and a business that is in control, which is also good.