It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

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.

When I get sick, I go to my doctor like everyone else. A doctor has powerful tools that may help me. Or those tools may hurt me, make me worse. I have to decide. It's my life. It's my responsibility.

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.

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

Good novels are not written, they're rewritten!