I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

Every Superstate has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and the truth is a menace.

We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

In almost everything I've written there is a thread of this: man's seemingly palpable need to dislike someone other than himself.

Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.

Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized.

Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

Sleep comes, no matter how deep the sadness cuts. It’s like a gift from the universe.

sometime hate is just confused love!

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people.

All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!

I tend to read things that are a little more on the nourishing side. But if I don't enjoy something, I'll put it down.

I think any family would, any mother would their children.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.