Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.

Without feelings insignificant decisions become excruciating attempts to compare endless arrays of inconsequential things. It's just easier to handle those with emotions.

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

Good necessitates evil.

Ships have feelings.

If that’s what you’re willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

I never loved anyone else and never desired to. She was my companion, my lover, and my teacher.

Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.

The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's.

If you are doing your best you will not have time to worry about failure.

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

I'm a great reader of history. I love - I have been reading history since I was a kid, and learning the lessons globally of what happened with people.