With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wife, I grew by insensible degrees courageous and secure.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

This isn't a war, " said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.

The chances of anything man-like on Mars are a million to one

It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved.

At one point, she said after a while, at one point we thought we might raise silkworms in one of the empty rooms. But then we never did. Oh, for the countless things one fails to do!

Even if you love a lady, don't say you will take care of her while someone else is catering for your needs.

It's complicated.' 'So's quantitative easing. But I still get that it means printing money.

Having my priorities in order has really helped me look better, fresher, and more relaxed.

There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.

The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind.

I don't want to retire. I still want to play.

I'm very physical. I grew up boxing. I've done almost all of my own stunts in movies and in television.

My early exposure to all the leviathans of the Saturday matinee creature features inspired me, when I grew up, to make 'Jurassic Park.'