I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

E. M. Cioran

Philosophy is not politics, and we do our best, within our all-too-human limitations, to seek the truth, not to score points against opponents. There is little satisfaction in gaining an easy triumph over a weak opponent while ignoring better arguments against your views.

Peter Singer

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Frank Herbert

A life's work should be based on love.

Ray Bradbury

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

Henry David Thoreau

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

Tracey Ullman

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people.

Pete Cashmore

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

Ai Weiwei

The network is opening up some amazing possibilities for us to reinvent content, reinvent collaboration.

Tim O'Reilly

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

Ed Gillespie

I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.

George Burns

One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

Daniel Day-Lewis