... I simply accept that technology is stronger and more powerful than me: it works when it wants to, and when it doesn't its best to go for a walk, and just wait until the cables and telephone links are in a better mood and the computer decides to work again. I am not, I have discovered, my computers master: it has a life of its own.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

You are what you believe yourself to be.

We are responsible for the Universe because we are the Universe.

When I took the pills, I wanted to kill someone I hated. I didn't know that other Veronikas existed inside me, Veronikas that I could love.

Discipline and freedom are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent because otherwise, you'd sink into chaos.