This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there's a layer of people who run everything. But we - we're just peasants. We don't understand what's going on, and we can't do anything.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

Sometimes I dislike women, I dislike us all, because of our capacity for not-thinking when it suits us; we choose not to think when we are reaching our for happiness.

On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

None of you [men] ask for anything - except everything, but just for so long as you need it.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.