The personality is determined by a variety of interventions that enter the head like big symbolic flags in the conquered soil which seldom knows its defeat.

Get rich. Live life to the fullest. Destroy the world.

The future is travelling furiously toward you at incredible speed and will beat you to your destination to surprise you by its resemblance to what you have already seen.

Every science fiction is a reading of the period that produced it.

In just a few minutes, my son will have completed his first trip around the sun.

I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.

I have always respected everyone's religion. As I say, there is only one God and a lot of confused people.

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear.

Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life.

I have always been independent. I like it that way. When someone forces me to do something, I don't do it.

Faith is a euphemism for prejudice and religion is a euphemism for superstition.

Being an American, what I've noticed is that we're in such a race. You wake up and you realize you're in the middle of a race, and some people are running right by you.