When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally!

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

The village is coming back, like it or not.

In all of history, we have found just one cure for error—a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal.

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea.

But honestly, if you do a rigorous survey of my work, I'll bet you'll find that biology is a theme far more often than physical science.

Gaia spins on, silently contemplating what it means to be born into a sarcastic universe.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

What could be said about me...a man to whom only his painting matters? And of course his garden and his flowers as well.

Some things are more important that life itself

I think a lot of creative people have no sense of numbers and economics.

Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will belies waiting on the road ahead.

Remember now, Cheers, no tears.

An actor who's a control freak, that doesn't work. We have to be malleable. We cannot come in and try to control or dominate.