I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

If you perceive right you receive right. If you perceive wrong you receive wrong.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

From the east comes the sun, bringing a new and unspoiled day.

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.

If you do not fling old ideas out of your mind, you cannot give birth to new ones.

The Scots are very hospitable; almost as hospitable as the Americans.

I think of Terrence Malick's movie Days of Heaven - one of Richard Gere's first movies - you can push pause on almost any image in the movie and it looks like a painting.

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just end the Fed.