I hadn't traveled with the intention of learning about anything except myself. And the real point of all this travel was not what I had come to believe or disbelieve about the wider world, but what I had learned about myself.

I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with opinions, concepts, and information structures of all sorts, that it becomes difficult to experience anything without the intervening filter of these structures.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.