This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.

One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination

Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

Life is a freak. That’s its hope and glory.

No matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we're always licked by something from the inside. Ther's no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

The oppressed never free themselves-they do not have the necessary strengths.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.

All style is personal - that's what distinguishes it from fashion.

What you do for yourself is one thing. What you do for others is something else entirely.

It's become impossible to enjoy most quality television shows because the hurt or endangered women device is so frequently used.

I already committed Darren [Criss] to giving a song.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

[With my photographs] you have a [single, forever fixed] moment and my particular angle of vision. My tyrannical condition, as it were, is that I prescribe your vision.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.