What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

Reason shapes the future, but superstition infects the present.

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

I'm saying with very few exceptions nothing lasts forever, and among those exceptions, no work or thought of man is numbered.

-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making you smile about a disaster?" -"Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.

You need to read more science fiction. Nobody who reads science fiction comes out with this crap about the end of history

Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.