We are going to the moon that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

I reserve the right to love many different people at once, and to change my prince often.

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.

Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.

Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.

Without knowing yourself, there is no peace.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

It's really difficult to know what is the best way forward when you're not getting a lot of support - and probably most writers aren't getting enough support.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.