It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

John Acton

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Voltaire

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Tom Hopkins

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

Arthur Miller

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they -- at least the ones that I know personally -- have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Winona Ryder

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.

Walter Chrysler

A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

E(dward) W(yllis) Scripps

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

Friedrich Schiller

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

C.S. Lewis

The way of the troublemaker is thorny.

American Indian Proverb, Umpqua

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

Nick Lowe