Let it be understood, in the first place, that a science fiction story must be an exposition of a scientific theme and it must be also a story.

The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

The history of saints is mainly the history of insane people.

Benito Mussolini

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

Suzanne Moarny

Every time we got something into the camera it was as if we were saying to the 6 million ghosts -- with a wry smile on our faces, and a sense of accomplishment -- That's for you! On shooting Schindler's List

Ben Kingsley

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn

Benjamin Mays

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

Larry David

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Bill Griffith

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Albert Einstein

No one ever tells us the truth, even those we love.

Anna Held

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Samuel Johnson