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 plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

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

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

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.

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

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

There are stories that don't need a plot. Sooner or later they rise above the confusion and untangle their mysteries in a series of sentences.

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage

In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry.

There is no compromise when it comes to corruption. You have to fight it.

Curiosity must be kept alive.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.