Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Some people smoked crack in alleyways. Franny ate chocolate. On the scale of things, it seemed entirely reasonable.

Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.

My pictures are about making people realize we've got to protect those who can't speak for themselves.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

If no love is, O God, what fele I so? And if love is, what thing and which is he? If love be good, from whennes cometh my woo? If it be wikke, a wonder thynketh me

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

Contrary to what President Obama said in his inaugural address, going on Medicare and food stamps does not strengthen us. Just ask people who are fourth-generation welfare recipients.

I am a master of foolhardy plans, I thought. I have so much practice I consider them professional risks.

There was a period of time where people felt like women in the show were being exploited a little.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.