The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear.

People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

I watch movies occasionally, and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.

There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a sense in which fiction can rescue history from confusion.

The genius of rock music is that it matched the cultural hysteria around it.