Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.

Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

Not everybody has a talent for painting, or for the piano, or for dance. But we can write our way into the artist's head and into his problems and solutions. Or we can go there with another writer.

The last time she was up here, she had been... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames.

And if you do see any pirates, I don't want you to pick up any rough manners from them. Do you understand?

Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction.

In the end you have only you.

Good wine needs no bush, And perhaps products that people really want Need no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. Why not? Look at pot.

They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.

If computers are the wave of the future, displays are the surfboards.