Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

It is perfectly okay to write garbage – as long as you edit brilliantly.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

Watch out for a man whose enemies keep disappearing.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.

Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.

Pebbles that bring you joy are better than diamonds that bring you sorrow.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

We must unite. Violence against women cannot be tolerated, in any form, in any context, in any circumstance, by any political leader or by any government.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

We need one another. There's no reason to judge. People are more fragile than you could possibly imagine.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

When I heard that our bodies change when we get a bit older, I thought, oh good, now I'll go back to being a boy again. But it didn't happen like that.

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.