"The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind."

“Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but nerve ends screaming in the breeze.”

“Intellectual freedom is essential -- freedom to obtain and distribute information, freedom for open-minded and unfearing debate and freedom from pressure by officialdom and prejudices. Such freedom of thought is the only guarantee against an infection of people by mass myths, which, in the hands of treacherous hypocrites and demagogues, can be transformed into bloody dictatorship.”

Source : Andrei D. Sakharov (1968). “Progress, coexistence, and intellectual freedom”

“I don't wish my career on anyone.”

“Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.”

“I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.”

“My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.”

“The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.”

“I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today.”