Using something real does not destroy the fantastical

The way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people's pain.

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.

Love is moral even without legal marriage but marriage is immoral without love.

Someone once said "The only thing that will be left after a nuclear holocaust is Cher and cockroaches." I think that's funny, because, you know, I am a survivor. If I am anything, that's what I am.

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

Because Adam, God's deputy on earth, transfered his legal dominion to Satan, God became obligated to recognize Satan's legal standing.

Literature is the memory of humanity.

As a matter of fact - it'll probably ruin my movie career - but I think better storytellers are in television.

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.