Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.

Your lack of fear is based on your ignorance.

A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

Intellectuals always make a fuss about nothing.

Everyone likes to reminisce, but not one wants to listen, and everyone feels annoyed when someone else tells a story.

In his mind, the city, as it awoke from its slumber, seemed to be built on quicksand. The stability was illusory.

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.

Pleasure for an hour a bottle of wine pleasure for a year marriage pleasure for a lifetime a garden.

MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a race and how to breathe.

Too much TV hurts movies.

If I can find something that I haven't done before, then that is an immediate...it peaks my interest.

Make a mess. Clean it up.

Acting is like lying. The art of lying well. I'm paid to tell elaborate lies.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.