I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

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Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man, that state is obsolete.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

Every moment nature is serving fresh dishes with the items of happiness. It is our choice to recognize and taste it.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

You have to fight. You know, you don't want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.

If I can get my dress on, my weight is under control.

I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

It is in the nature of democracies, perhaps, that while visionaries are sometimes necessary to make them, once made they can be managed by mediocrities.

Like the collector, the photographer is animated by a passion that, even when it appears to be for the present, is linked to a sense of the past.