I'm just content with myself, happy with myself.
All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?
For me, writing [was] a question of survival. . . I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
If history moves forward, knowledge of it travels backwards, so that in writing of our own recent past we are continually meeting ourselves coming the other way.
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.