Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

Tomorrow changes the face of reality.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

If death shows up before my last breathe, I swear I'll kill death.

If there is no scent of Christ’s love on someone, then they bear no evidence of true devotion to Christ.

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

Conversation on the page should reflect what the story is about. It doesn't have to be "realistic" in the sense that it's something you heard and plugged into a story.

Start [the movie] in color. Color is always attributed as fun, and black and white is very sad.

That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?