Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

When it comes to relationships, I find it best to have two feet out the door

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more enthusiasm than skill.

America is a willingness of the heart.

He'll probably wake up having sleepless nights about that one.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

It is very easy for us to go, you know, "I am being cruel to be kind," when really we are just ... being cruel. Because it makes us feel big, or whatever.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.

I don't think there have been many alien movies where the actors have actually seen the aliens.

Mothers remember a child's first words, and quote them in tones usually reserved for Byron.

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it.