Think Quotes

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

I think that’s why it feels like songs are really connected, and I like that. They’re all worked on kind of like a little family.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don’t think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you’re funny.

I don’t think I’m complicated at all. I’m not political, and I’m not trying to be diplomatic. I don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, and I don’t say bad things about people. There is no agenda. There’s no trying to fool somebody.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.

Am I going to complain about being typecast as smart? I don’t think so.