Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink.

The reformer is one who with clarion voice will call the ministry back to it's knees.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist's office.

I am sick of atrocities, though these are now the natural order of our world. And I would still like to act!

Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.

Crisis moments create opportunity. Problems and crises ignite our greatest creativity and thought leadership as it forces us to focus on things outside the norm.

He talked with more claret than clarity

Writers do the self-censoring before they even get to the studio executive, because they know the film will not run that gauntlet. They, because they want to get their films made, they censor it.

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.