What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.

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.

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.

Feel Superior but Act Inferior

I look and look, / As though I could be saved simply by looking

The writer has to be brave, I think.

Walk where your heart leads you, there are no restrictions and no burdens.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.

And light is mingled with the gloom, And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom In sweet relief.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

I took pictures of the objects and artifacts that Patti [Smith] would show to her friends because I wanted to document them.