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War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful world is possible.
People say that if you don't love America, then get the hell out. Well, I love America.
Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
I've been saying for a long time that I'm hoping to find intelligent life in Washington.
I've had a very lucky life because I'm of this generation where everything was possible.
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers
Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.
You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.
The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.
Perhaps no other year before or since 1984 has been awaited with such eager anticipation.
There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
The essence of drama is that man cannot walk away from the consequences of his own deeds.
I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.
When you ask, did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
I have a great deal of compassion for those in public life and what we have done to them.
This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.
Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.
When anything huge happens to me, I always think, this isn't my moment, this is a moment.
I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.
We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.
I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.
I'd like to be a jazz singer, but I couldn't possibly do it; nobody would want me, anyway.
Love is a treasure for which we can never pay. The only way we keep it is to give it away.
Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine.
We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
I'm not good at fantasy, no. I have been offered stuff, and I can't get my head around it.
I actually speak fluent German. And I live in Vienna, and I'm married to a Viennese woman.
I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.
'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.
I feel like I am always the one tearing everything up and forever sewing it back together.
And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.
We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
The present no matter what I brought couldn’t change the past. The Past was set and sealed.
I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.