Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

You are all alike, you people. You never learn the truth--that God knows nothing.

Nothing in life was as ugly as death.

He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?

Death isn't a tragedy to God, only to those left behind.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

There's that process of writing it - then you come out of your room into the sunlight, and you now have to complete the circuit and make the connection finally with the audience.

Though we do not have many poets, we certainly have more than we deserve, for we deserve none at all. It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword.

I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.

I think people like to exaggerate about the number of takes you do.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.