Here at great expense, ' [Colonel Groves] moaned to Oppenheimer, 'the government has assembled the world's largest collection of crackpots.

She was too well-trained to panic.

Heaven is not a republic.

When you find real love — protect and preserve the sweetness and intimacy of your gift.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

Convenience is the American way.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

Hustling is putting every minute and all your effort into achieving the goal at hand.

Almost every actor goes into almost every picture very frightened. He is positive he really can't do it. The bigger the star, the more frightened he is.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.