Now, before you make a movie, you have to have a script, and before you have a script, you have to have a story; though some avant-garde directors have tried to dispense with the latter item, you'll find their work only at art theaters.

Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.

Why, Robert Singh often wondered, did we give our hearts to friends whose life spans are so much shorter than our own?