Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

70 percent of what we do involves staring into space trying to figure out what the hell happens next.

Your hope shall be your life.

We are but a speck in the Universe Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...

Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

I always felt that if somebody picks on you it's because they're not happy doing what they're doing.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

I resent 'experts' who have never faced deadly threat, yet who tell me - and you - that we should not consider a response of equal power against those who would threaten our lives.

You cannot be against embryonic stem cell research and be intellectually and therefore morally consistent, if you're not also against in vitro fertilization.

I'm trying to find a way to eat up time without being destructive, 'cause that's my go-to, it seems.

Poetry is emotion recollected in tranquillity.