He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

When politics and religion are intermingled, a people is suffused with a sense of invulnerability, and gathering speed in their forward charge, they fail to see the cliff ahead of them

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.

Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.

Horror movies are the best date movies. There's no wondering , 'When do I put my arm around her?'

I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything.

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.