"When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget."

“Imitation is not inspiration, and inspiration only can give birth to a work of art. The least of man's original emanation is better than the best of borrowed thought.”

Source : Albert Pinkham Ryder (1961). “Albert Pinkham Ryder: Exhibition April 8-May 12, 1961”

“Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .”

Source : Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.170, Macmillan

“Non-reaction to the ego in others is one of the most effective ways not only of going beyond ego in yourself but also of dissolving the collective human ego.”

“Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.”

“There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.”

“I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often.”

“Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.”

“I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.”