Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

That is the exploration that awaits you! Not mapping stars and studying nebula, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.

My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

Without followers, evil cannot spread.

Because I have known despair, I value hope. Because I have tasted frustration, I value fulfillment. Because I have been lonely, I value love.

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

Those who cannot hear an angry shout may strain to hear a whisper.

Whatever we are we belong together. Wherever we are, we will find each other. Whoever we are we are forever one.

Follow the rules until you make them.

And she cries even more, for the way the universe keeps throwing her together with the players in her son's tragedy, like handfuls of dust.

Emotions must not be part of the decision process: decisions must be clinical and well calculated.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

If there is any better way to teach virtue than by practicing it, I do not know it.

In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.

Fairness has not been enhanced by the tax code, but lobbyists have been made rich, politicians have been re-elected, and the economy has been made to suffer.

I try to create a place of disorientation.

There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.