Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.

By 'scientifiction' I mean the Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, and Edgar Allan Poe type of story-a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision

When the world is too much, create your own. I do it everyday.

You are not your illness. You have an individual story to tell. You have a name, a history, a personality. Staying yourself is part of the battle.

What she has is effortlessly remarkable, the kind of gift you only feel the weight of if it's something you don't have but dearly want.

The best reason why monarchy is a strong government is that it is an intelligible government: the mass of mankind understand it and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

When I was a kid, you ate, and you drank, and you passed out and nobody woke you up and said, 'Let's go shopping.

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

There isn't a flight goes by when I don't stare out of the window and thank my stars for what I'm seeing and feeling.

The past, the future, majesty, love - if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.

They say love conquers all You can't start it like a car You can't stop it with a gun.