Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

That's the trouble with languages. They have to be learned.

Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.

Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it.

Never accept the initial premise of the opposition.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn't take a hard look at itself.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Immunity corrupts; absolute immunity corrupts absolutely.

Man studied birds for centuries, trying to learn how to make a machine to fly like them. He never did do the trick; his final success came when he broke away entirely and tried new methods.

I have worked too damn hard encasing that beating life force into a steel box.

I live in a constant state of gratitude, thankfulness, and appreciation for the second chance I was given, so anytime in any film, when that is given to someone, I always appreciate it.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

I like rough edges. That's what makes a person real.

I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.

Nobody lived my life. Nobody cried my tears. So don't judge me.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

The thing that I come across is that people think that I might actually be super aggressive, want-to-fight type in real life. The irony is that that's just not true, at all.