No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

I'm a very boring person.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light.

It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.