We are no longer so lacking in fantasy as to uphold the existence of a god.

I tell my employees that we're in the service business, and it's incidental that we fly airplanes.

I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.

There's something spiritual in hard work. Spirituality isn't all aromatherapy and scented candles.

How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

I am not one of the people who believe that the main reason why a chap becomes a bookmaker is because he is too scared to steal and too heavy to become a jockey.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.

Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live.