In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'

Tarsem Singh

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Paul Geraldy

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

David Ogilvy

There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.

William F. Halsey

I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death.

Ernest Hemingway

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

Anna Neagle

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Jim Rohn

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

Bill Hicks

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Doug Horton

Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.

Billy Carter

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Arthur Schopenhauer

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

David Borenstein, 1996