I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

Science is the study of what Is, Engineering builds what Will Be. The scientist merely explores that which exists, while the engineer creates what has never existed before.

A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

The heavenly Father knows all my faults. But still forgives all my sins.

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Logic is no answer to passion.

I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

Goddess” he said. Her voice floated to us. Yes, Child.” Will I see you again?” Just her voice now, young and old at the same time. “In the face of every woman you meet

The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

To need nothing is divine, and the less a man needs the nearer does he approach to divinity.

How did we suddenly become entranced with gangster culture? I saw it this morning on campus. When did the black community say we should all look like criminals?