Knowledge is just opinion that you trust enough to act upon.

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it

We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.

Madness, and then illumination.

You killed more people than anybody in history." "Be the best at whatever you do, that's what my mother always told me.