John F. Kennedy Quotes
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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There's something very Nixonian about the idea of keeping an enemy's list.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was an ill match. She encouraged me to be a writer. She opened her home to black friends, and this was the 1950s. She didn't care later when I write about her.
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I panic at parties. I don't like talking absolutely nothing and pretending, so I'm quite odd socially.
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad's car in the driveway, I would go to a friend's house. I connected my dad being there with fear.
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Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
