"The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb."
"Contrary to popular belief, the gene-centered theory of evolution does not imply that the point of all human striving is to spread our genes."
"Nietzsche often stresses that we start going wrong when we become captured by the picture of revealing 'reality.'"
"We think we understand each other, but we never really do."
"Those who tell the stories rule society."
"From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world."
"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
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"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
