"I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world."

“I've always been called a professional opportunist, and in the future I'm open to anything. We've spent a lot of time offshore, looking at opportunities in real estate outside the United States.”

“No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.”

Source : Laura Esquivel, Stephen A. Lytle (2000). “Between Two Fires: Intimate Writings on Life, Love, Food & Flavor”, Crown Pub

“A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.”

“Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.”

Source : "Sound Change". "Wordmaster" with Avi Arditti, Rosanne Skirble, learningenglish.voanews.com. January 12, 2005.

“If I'd wanted to be an individual, I'd have taken up tennis.”

Source : Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

“My own mother fought to make herself more than a possession; she lived her life as a mother who chose when she would have children, and a wife who could earn a living if she so chose. I want my daughters to enjoy that same choice.”

“Every joke is either taken by ads or The Simpsons. It's all about being able to get your ideas out into the universe.”

“To say I removes a false impression of a Jovian aloofness.”

Source : Jerome Frank (1973). “Courts on Trial: Myth and Reality in American Justice”, p.8, Princeton University Press